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In her 60s, she set off on a hulking Harley-Davidson and found a new area of anthropological research: bikers, and in particular, female bikers.
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NO JUDGMENT: ESSAYS BY LAUREN OYLER. NEW YORK: HARPERONE. 288 PAGES. $29
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Lord Byron (1788-1824) was a leading figure in the Romantic movement. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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The two books reviewed in the essay are: Byron: A Life in Ten Letters By Andrew Stauffer, Cambridge University Press. 300 pp. $29.95; and Byron’s Travels Poems, Letters, and Journals Selected and Introduced by Fiona Stafford, Everyman’s Library. 728 pp. $35
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Two novels in his formidable Zones of Thought sequence, A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) and its prequel A Deepness in the Sky (1999), won Hugos for best novel, as did the lighter-hearted near-future comedy Rainbows End (2006).
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Vernor Vinge’s writings heavily influenced futurists like Ray Kurzweil, who in turn influenced those at companies like OpenAI.
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Sometimes we all need a book that will give us a good cry. These deeply emotional novels from the Booker Prize archives will break your heart – and mend it again
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If the dark and twisted mind of Tom Ripley has left you yearning for more, you’ll find plenty more antiheroes in the Booker Prize library, where the lines between good and evil blur
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Knife is an account of the writer’s brush with death in 2022, and the long recovery that followed.
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The American Library Association condemns censorship and works to defend each person's right to read under the First Amendment and to ensure free access to information. Every year, ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) compiles a list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books in order to inform the public about censorship in libraries and schools. The lists are based on information from reports filed by library professionals and community members, as well as news stories published throughout the United States.Every year, the American Library Association compiles a list of the Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books, using its database and media reports.
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Roemer’s books bring Suriname, on the South American Caribbean coast, to the world. Her 2019 novel, Off-White, will be released in English this month.
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We’re offering you the chance to win one of five bundles made up of all six shortlisted titles in contention for this year’s International Booker Prize
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The gates to hell in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy tell us to “abandon all hope, yet who enter here”. Despite its unfunny premise, ‘La Commedia’ ends well, with its protagonist Dante reaching heaven.
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Writer and psychotherapist Adam Phillips is often hailed as one of the world’s great essayists. His new book – exploring the topic of giving up, among other things – is both erudite and slippery.
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During a 12-year period of mental illness, Friedrich Nietzsche generated nearly 5,000 pages of fragmentary notes, explain
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Books by Brian Stableford and complete reviews at Publishers Weekly: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/authorpage/brian-stableford.html
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Espousing his ideas in best sellers, he insisted that religion was an illusion, free will was a fantasy and evolution could only be explained by natural selection.
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From viral pandemics to extinction-level events, these searing novels set in the wake of an apocalypse make the essential end-of-world reading list
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He and his wife wrote pioneering studies; he used the term “coercive control” to describe psychological and physical dominance by abusers.
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Literary historical novels with atmospheric settings—and which explore the interlinking of genres, as recommended by novelist Paul Carlucci
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The people objecting — and the titles they objected to — revealed a few surprises.
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