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1 week ago | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Colin Dwyer
A true titan of world letters returns to the page this week. Granted, it's not as if Isabel Allende ever really left. The prodigious Chilean expat, now in her 80s, continues to publish as quickly as ever. My Name Is Emilia Del Valle, due out this week, is Allende's seventh novel in the past decade.
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2 weeks ago | 
kpbs.org | Colin Dwyer
It must be something of a deflating time for Revolutionary War reenactors. The 250th anniversary of the war's opening shots at Lexington came and went earlier this month. And while the date was certainly commemorated with gusto, there won't be another major battle to reenact until June, at the earliest. Fortunately there's consolation on this week's publishing calendar: The second volume in Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson's planned trilogy on the American Revolution.
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4 weeks ago | 
wuwf.org | Colin Dwyer
Woe betide the poor soul looking for a snappy unifying theme in this week's notable new reads. These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush, fantastical landscapes. There are no easy throughlines here, in other words. Then again, perhaps we shouldn't overthink this one.
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4 weeks ago | 
mprnews.org | Colin Dwyer
Woe betide the poor soul looking for a snappy unifying theme in this week’s notable new reads. These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush, fantastical landscapes. There are no easy throughlines here, in other words. Then again, perhaps we shouldn’t overthink this one.
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1 month ago | 
tpr.org | Colin Dwyer
Don't worry, you've come to a safe space. To be clear, the same can't be said for the rest of the internet, which every April Fools' Day lards its usual mystery blend of fact, rumor and misinformation with, well, still more misinformation — this time in the service of what some allege to be humor. But you've found sanctuary in the next few hundred words, promise.
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1 month ago | 
mprnews.org | Colin Dwyer
Don’t let the crowd of one-word titles fool you: Those looking for their next book will have quite the potpourri to pick from this week. The new releases range from a debut novel to a new installment in a venerable series, from a memoir of wrongful imprisonment to a celebrated novelist's tale of deep-sea intrigue — and then there's a biography of Yoko Ono, who defies any comparison, really. ‘Elphie,’ by Gregory MaguireSomething “Wicked” this way comes … again.
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1 month ago | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Colin Dwyer
Don't let the crowd of one-word titles fool you: Those looking for their next book will have quite the potpourri to pick from this week. The new releases range from a debut novel to a new installment in a venerable series, from a memoir of wrongful imprisonment to a celebrated novelist's tale of deep-sea intrigue — and then there's a biography of Yoko Ono, who defies any comparison, really.
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1 month ago | 
kpbs.org | Colin Dwyer |Ezra Klein |Derek Thompson |Stephen Jones
This week brings a number of promising new reads — but none more eagerly awaited than Sunrise on the Reaping, the latest Hunger Games adventure from Suzanne Collins (who gave us this rare interview in 2009). Read on for full Sunrise spoilers (kidding!).
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2 months ago | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Colin Dwyer |Sarah Harman |Laurie Woolever |Torrey Peters
Merry daylight saving time, to all who celebrate! Between the later evenings, milder breezes and prodigious quantities of mud, the oncoming Ides of March often promises hope (for most, at least) and a literally brighter world — all of which just means more daylight for reading, duh. It's a good time, in other words, to neglect your ponderous backlog just a little longer and cast a longing gaze toward the hotly anticipated books publishing this week.
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2 months ago | 
ssir.org | Colin Dwyer
Philanthropy & Funding The overdose crisis exposes how funders allow themselves to be diverted fromimpact. To read this article and start a full year of unlimited online access, subscribe now! Subscribe Now Already a subscriber? Login Need to register for your premium online access,which is included with your paid subscription? Register Now Support SSIR’s coverage of cross-sector solutions to global challenges.
