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Review: 'A Tale of Five Cities and Other Memoirs,' by Joyce Elbert

NONFICTION: The unjustly neglected Joyce Elbert reminiscences about being a woman novelist in a man's world.

Tribune News Service · Aug 17, 2022

Review: 'Elizabeth Finch,' by Julian Barnes

FICTION: A distinguished British writer's graceful novel about a rewarding bond kindled in the classroom.

Tribune News Service · Aug 17, 2022

Review: 'Autoportrait,' by Jesse Ball

NONFICTION: An antidote to the formulaic genre of memoir, providing an authentic look at what life feels like, in all its contradictory glory.

Tribune News Service · Aug 17, 2022

Just Gonna Say It: Peeta Mellark Is Actually The Greatest YA Leading Man Of All Time

Fk off Edward Cullen.

Pedestrian.tv · Aug 17, 2022

The Furrows by Namwali Serpell review – bravura investigation of grief

A woman is haunted by the death of her little brother in this dark, destabilising fable about time and loss

The Guardian - UK · Aug 17, 2022

Sabrina Ghayour: ‘This is the biggest misconception about Persian food’

The British-Iranian chef talks to Prudence Wade about how her cooking has changed since becoming a stepmum, and why simple is always best

The Independent UK · Aug 17, 2022

Want to read Anne Heche's out-of-print memoir? It could easily cost you $750

Fans of the late actor Anne Heche can get their hands on her 2001 memoir, "Call Me Crazy." But only if they're willing to spend a pretty penny on it.

Los Angeles Times · Aug 16, 2022

New York judge sides with Cuomo in dispute over book deal

A New York judge has ruled in favor of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and against a state ethics commission that wanted him to give up $5 million he was paid to write a book

The Independent UK · Aug 16, 2022

Keller school officials order 41 books — including the Bible and an Anne Frank adaptation — off of library shelves

A new policy scraps community recommendations from last fall that some books that had been questioned should remain on shelves.

The Texas Tribune · Aug 16, 2022

Texas school staff told to pull Bible, Anne Frank adaptation from libraries

DALLAS — A day before students return to class, officials from the Keller Independent School District instructed campuses to pull any book that was challenged last year from library shelves.

Tribune News Service · Aug 16, 2022