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Ken Follett has a new book out: Circle of Days #historicalfiction www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/c...

A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw Recalling a Union officer fueled (at least partly) by a belief in abolition. #history #booksky www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/a...

Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed's Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East The new book by the reporter Matthew Cole connects $2 billion in slush funds from gulf state leaders to Trump’s son-in-law in an effort to influence U.S. policy. #booksky www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/b...

Book Review: Partita: A Novel Barbara Kingsolver's tour-de-force exploration of music’s power to heal. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/p...

Was Cormac McCarthy That Guy in Your MFA? #writing #authors McCarthy believed “there’s no reason to…blot the page with weird little marks….I mean if you write properly you shouldn’t have to punctuate.” lithub.com/if-you-write...?

Travel back in time to an era without smartphones, only the beginnings of the internet, and a cast of characters you’ll not soon forget. Visit the ‘Big Bad City’- Louisville in 1990, where detectives in a small agency find themselves taking on the Mob. www.amazon.com/Big-Bad-City...

'You Can See Everything is Breaking the Oscars' www.theringer.com/2026/10/26/y...

How Newspapers Helped Democratize Knowledge and Civic Participation Their downfall may explain some of where we are today. lithub.com/how-newspape...?

Paul Theroux on what Americans get wrong about Canada. thewalrus.ca/what-america...?

A ‘Bipartisan’ Bill to Dismantle the Nation’s Bedrock Environmental Law: The truth is that it will fast-track environmental destruction. #environment therevelator.org/baaja/

An Undocumented War: Inside Deportation’s Machinery of Violence lithub.com/an-undocumen...?

New Science Fiction About Truth and Lies in an Age of War Three recent novels explore the use of deception by both invaders and the invaded. #SciFi #booksky www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/b...

Terrific page-turner...

In 'Secrets: A Reporter's Memoir' Bob Woodward pulls back the curtain on some of his biggest sources, since many are now deceased. #booksky #memoir www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

The U.S. is one of the major reasons humanity is losing the fight against climate extremes. guyonclimate.com/2026/10/25/e...

Apocalypse Now and Then Arundhati Roy- Is Artificial intelligence capitalism’s final destination? www.equator.org/articles/aru...?

Nature's Extremes in 2099: Wildfires, gigantic hurricanes, flooded cities and heat too hot to survive. Read a story of the future: 'The Hurricane Code.' #climate #SciFi #CliFi #Environment #booksky #books amazon.com/dp/B08J1SK814/

Excerpt: The Last Best Place on the Internet- a Human History of Wikipedia I use it nearly every day and donate as well. #booksky lithub.com/why-wikipedi...?

We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction. archive.ph/QqNT2#select...

In Appalachia's rough beauty, a serial killer is on the move and it involves the environment: Reader review: Loved it and was hard to put down The Cumberland Killers. a Kentucky Mystery #KindleUnlimited #mystery www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

How a writing competition gave us both 'Frankenstein' and 'The Vampyre' #books #history daily.jstor.org/frankenstein...?

How Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass #environment #climate #pollution www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Things that make the film adaptation of a book bad #books #cinema thewalrus.ca/is-a-bad-jan...?

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

An IT Security Center from the 1990's....

Review: The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby: Inside a Billionaire Family’s Quest to Craft a Christian Nation #booksky www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/t...

The Quilting Novel That Stormed the Best-Seller List Eli McCann had a surprise hit with his debut novel, “Stitched.” #booksky www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/b...

A global crisis has reconfigured human life in “The End of Everything" #booksky www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/b...

Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War An epic account of the City of Light’s descent into darkness. #books www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/h...

Skerritt was Captain Dallas in Alien, Viper in Top Gun, and a small town sheriff in the TV series Picket Fences. n.pr/3UaM5wi

For one of the most disliked movies, a positive review #cinema defector.com/digger-is-sm...

Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate Homer, offers a series of essays that examine modern interpretations of ancient literature. #booksky www.csmonitor.com/Arts-Culture...

Book Excerpt: Why the Brain Isn’t the Self- 'Alive: The Hidden Intelligence of the Living World #booksky undark.org/2026/09/25/e...

A sad but perfect metaphor for the Trump Administration. wapo.st/3WF2YQo

Thrillers that provide escape rather than terror #booksky www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...

Tropical Storm Vance has developed in the eastern Pacific...although Vance the politician is the bigger threat apnews.com/article/trop...

More attempted intimidation of broadcasters: Trump's FCC chair says broadcast networks could violate regulatory obligations by airing 'fake polls' www.reuters.com/business/med...

The Northeaster has formed into Subtropical Storm Josephine, still affecting the Outer Banks at least into tomorrow. #OBX #ncwx www.wral.com/weather/hurr...

Josephine forms from a Northeaster that has lashed the Outer Banks off North Carolina for days. The storm will head out to sea soon and might strengthen briefly into a hurricane.

Forest Language Finding wisdom in the vocabulary of trees- orionmagazine.org/article/fore...

A Rediscovery of Witches In her latest work, the historian Marion Gibson focuses on the victims of a deadly English witch hunt. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/b...

On the history of some famous literary aphorisms lithub.com/what-gertrud...?

Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided Ukraine politicalwire.com/2026/10/20/e...

'Get Jiro' is a deranged and delectable posthumous treat from Anthony Bourdain This adaptation of Bourdain and Joel Rose’s graphic novel feels like having one last delicious meal with the No Reservations host himself. www.avclub.com/get-jiro-rev...

On 50 Years of Interview with the Vampire and the Immortality of Anne Rice’s Lestat lithub.com/leigh-bardug...?

Typhoon Champi is a monster, still a likely threat to Taiwan #hurricanes