To take a closer look at the auto market, Cheap Insurance compiled a ranking of the bestselling cars in Idaho using 2023 data from Edmunds.
As the rom-com starring Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell hits Netflix, a look at the classic work of literature that inspired its story and characters.
After 15 years of staging annual literary festivals — and just weeks before its 2024 event was to open — Bookstock announced on Monday that it is closing down. The Woodstock festival scheduled for June 21 to 23 is canceled. Cofounder and board chair Peter Rousmaniere told Seven Days that disparate visions for the festival prompted some participating organizations to pull out. He declined to name them. "It was a decision on their own, which I respect," he said. More than two dozen local...
Out in West Texas, a pair of aspiring novelists and enterprising small-town newspaper owners, Barbara Brannon and Kay Ellington, were dismayed by the number of publications that were dropping book sections, cutting critics, and otherwise decimating literary coverage, especially in the Lone Star State. By the 2010s, “93 percent of the state’s newspapers offer no […]
1. Table for Two by Amor Towles (Viking: $32) A collection of stories from the author of "The Lincoln Highway." 2. The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron Books: $30) A magic-infused novel set in the Spanish Golden Age. 3. The Women by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Press: $30) An intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. 4. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” 5. North...
Russell Banks' latest book, American Spirits, was published posthumously a few months ago, and reviewers have been mostly positive about it. I recently got around to reading it and found the insights regarding rural folks, incluidng their attachment to place, quite compelling. This excerpt is from the first of the three stories, "Nowhere Man," which involves a man, Doug Lafleur, who, with his siblings, sold their interest in the land they inherited from their father (Guy Lafleur) in the rural...
1. Table for Two by Amor Towles (Viking: $32) A collection of stories from the author of "The Lincoln Highway." 2. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” 3. The Women by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Press: $30) An intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. 4. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (Riverhead: $28) The discovery of a skeleton in Pottstown, Pa.,...
See the top-selling releases among hardcover fiction and nonfiction, plus trade paperbacks for the sales week that ended April 21.
See the top-selling releases among hardcover fiction and nonfiction, plus trade paperbacks for the sales week that ended April 21.
See the top-selling releases among hardcover fiction and nonfiction, plus trade paperbacks for the sales week that ended April 21.
Tourists have been descending on Achill ever since Heinrich Böll wrote effusively about its inhabitants’ customs and idiosyncrasiesIn 1954, the German writer Heinrich Böll landed in Ireland for the first time, headed west and kept going till he reached the Atlantic Ocean. He was seeking a refuge from the brash materialism of postwar Germany, and found it on Achill Island, where waves crashed against cliffs, sheep foraged in fields and villagers went about their business of fishing, farming and...
Authors and translators say PEN America has ‘had no criticism of American complicity in the bombardment of Gaza’, in stark contrast to other national centres of the organisation Thirty-one authors and translators have withdrawn their work from consideration for or declined PEN America’s 2024 literary awards over the organisation’s “failure to protect” Palestinian writers in Gaza.Nine out of 10 longlistees for the PEN/Jean Stein book award, worth $75,000 (£60,143), have withdrawn their books....