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Oct 24, 2024 | 
shepherd.com | Robert Bringhurst |Jung Chang |Benjamin Labatut |Adrian West
Myfavorite read in 2024A polyphonic multilayered book. It describes Haida oral literature; it tells the story of the Haida people of the pacific Northwest; and how their works were retold by a US anthropologist in his 190-1901 fieldwork. At one and the same time an excavation of a colonial encounter, a literary study and an anthological detective story. The Haida stories are magical., disturbing and weird. Impossible to classify and difficult to put down.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
princeton.edu | Benjamin Labatut |Don Winslow |Emily Henry |Jamie Saxon
Six Princeton professors talk about beloved books on their shelves and share what’s on their summer reading lists — from scholarly nonfiction to crime fiction, with history, poetry, rom-com, artificial intelligence, magic, democracy, philosophy and more in the mix. Some book choices reflect our contributors’ research and teaching. Others illuminate personal interests and current issues in the headlines. Tina CamptCampt is the Roger S.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
harpers.org | Benjamin Labatut |Laurent Dubreuil |John Ganz |Donovan Hohn
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
harpers.org | Benjamin Labatut
We will never know how many died during the Butlerian Jihad. Was it millions? Billions? Trillions, perhaps? It was a fantastic rage, a great revolt that spread like wildfire, consuming everything in its path, a chaos that engulfed generations in an orgy of destruction lasting almost a hundred years. A war with a death toll so high that it left a permanent scar on humanity’s soul.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
sheknows.com | Todd Haynes |Susan Sontag |Benjamin Labatut |Elena Ferrante |Giovana Gelhoren
While we always adore seeing Natalie Portman starring in gorgeous Dior ads, her latest campaign gave fans an inside look into her life away from the cameras as viewers got to learn all her favorite books. “Welcome to my Dior Book Tote Club,” Portman says at the beginning of the video.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
journalgazette.net | Mariah Fredericks |Zadie Smith |Reshonda Tate |Benjamin Labatut
These works of biographical fiction are newly available through the Allen County Public Library. “The Wharton Plot”by Mariah Fredericks In 1911 New York City, acclaimed novelist Edith Wharton, when fellow writer David Graham Phillips is murdered, becomes obsessed with solving the crime when his sister believes he was killed by someone determined to stop the publication of his next book, which reveals the secrets of powerful people.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
thebookseller.com | Sian Bayley |Yomi Adegoke |Benjamin Labatut |Pushkin Press
Campaigns for titles by Alice Oseman, Britney Spears and Elliot Page are among those shortlisted for this year’s Publisher’s Publicity Circle (PPC) Awards, which celebrate the best campaigns carried out by publicists in 2023. The shortlists are divided into 15 categories, covering everything from hardback fiction to celebrity campaigns and children’s.
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Dec 27, 2023 | 
cnbc.com | James McBride |Benjamin Labatut |Matthew Desmond |Safiya Sinclair |Nicolas Vega
Barack Obama's year-end list of book recommendations is here. The list of 15 titles — 11 new and four carried over from his summer recommendations — features various genres, including fiction, history and memoir. "If you're looking for a new book over the holidays, give one of them a try," Obama wrote. "And if you can, shop at an independent bookstore or check them out at your local library."Of course, there's also a third way to check out Obama's recommendations: audiobook.
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Dec 27, 2023 | 
nbcchicago.com | James McBride |Benjamin Labatut |Matthew Desmond |Safiya Sinclair
Barack Obama's year-end list of book recommendations is here. The former president this week continued his annual tradition of sharing his favorite reads of the year. The list of 15 titles — 11 new and four carried over from his summer recommendations — features various genres, including fiction, history and memoir. "If you're looking for a new book over the holidays, give one of them a try," Obama wrote.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
shepherd.com | Benjamin Labatut |Adrian West |Anthony Doerr |Marcelo Gleiser
Shepherd is reader supported. When you buy books, we may earn an affiliate commission. Myfavorite read in 2023…Labatut’s book defies categorization. Is it a novel? Is it philosophy? Is it narrative non-fiction? It’s somehow all the above. Delving into the mysteries of humanity’s drive to understand nature, Labatut explores a handful of real personalities from the twentieth century as they struggled against the abyss toward which their very capacity to reason pushed them.
