Articles

  • 2 days ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Colin Dwyer

    "They f*** you up, your mum and dad," Philip Larkin once memorably wrote. "They may not mean to, but they do."Now surely the great British poet and novelist, who died three decades ago, did not set out to sum up the books coming out this week, but his famous line does a rather effective job of it anyway.

  • 1 week ago | mprnews.org | Colin Dwyer

    Strap in, folks: This week the publishing calendar is putting some difficult questions on the table, which range from pressing political concerns to perspective-altering riddles about life itself. For instance, what did former President Joe Biden’s team know — and choose to do — about the octogenarian’s alleged mental and physical decline during his ill-fated reelection campaign?

  • 2 weeks ago | nhpr.org | Colin Dwyer

    Strap in, folks: This week the publishing calendar is putting some difficult questions on the table, which range from pressing political concerns to perspective-altering riddles about life itself. For instance, what did former President Joe Biden's team know — and choose to do — about the octogenarian's alleged mental and physical decline during his ill-fated reelection campaign?

  • 1 month 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.

  • 1 month 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.