CBC releases its lists of the best Canadian nonfiction and the best Canadian fiction of 2023. Washington Post book review editors share the books they treasured in 2023. Esquire publishes its list of the best horror novels of 2023. Arabic translator Cara Piraino has won the Emerging Translator Prize 2023. NPR reports on a new Illinois anti-book-ban law that would withhold funding from libraries that remove books because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
CBC releases its lists of the best Canadian nonfiction and the best Canadian fiction of 2023.
Washington Post book review editors share the books they treasured in 2023.
Esquire publishes its list of the best horror novels of 2023.
Arabic translator Cara Piraino has won the Emerging Translator Prize 2023, The Bookseller reports.
NPR’s All Things Considered reports on a new Illinois anti-book-ban law that would withhold funding from libraries that remove books because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
December 15
American Fiction, based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett. Orion. Reviews | Trailer
Wonka, based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Warner Bros. Reviews | Trailer
The Zone of Interest, based on the novel by Martin Amis. A24. Reviews | Trailer
NYT reviews the audiobook Sing a Black Girl’s Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange, ed. by Imani Perry and narrated by a full cast (Hachette Audio): “A rhapsodic urgency can be felt in Sing a Black Girl’s Song, one reflective of Black women’s dreams of freedom and their concomitant demands for those dreams to become a reality.”
Washington Post reviews 1,000 Deadstock Sneakers: The Dream Collection by Larry Deadstock (Abrams): “Its value-add for the uninitiated comes from its pleasant blend of authoritative explanatory writing on the cultural significance of several styles…, amusing glimpses at Deadstock’s own personal tastes…and illuminating anecdotes from the colorful world of sneaker resale.”
Irenosen Okojie, author of Speak Gigantular and Butterfly Fish (both Jacaranda Bks.), takes The Guardian’s “The Books of My Life” survey.
Electric Lit hosts a conversation with Palestinian poets on “the role of literature in fighting genocide.”
Publishers Weekly highlights “7 Books from 2023 You Shouldn’t Overlook” and the 10 most-read PW reviews of 2023.
NYT shares “7 New Books We Recommend This Week,” “6 Paperbacks to Read This Week,” and “5 New Books to Read This Fall.”
Tor.com rounds up “Must-Read Short Speculative Fiction.”
AARP shares “6 Novels to Read if You Love Hallmark Holiday Movies.”
BookRiot suggests “20 Must-Read Historical Fiction Books Set in Korea” and “8 Awesome Book Recs for Totally Killer ’80s Slasher Film Fans.”
“Fed up with that Hallmark good cheer? Escape with a classic mystery,” Washington Post recommends.
LA Times reports how novelist Lauren Groff is fighting book bans by opening a bookstore in Florida.
Rush frontman Geddy Lee, author of My Effin Life (Harper), talks to PBS NewsHour.
Georges Ugeux, author of Wall Street’s Assault on Democracy: How Financial Markets Exacerbate Inequalities (Springer), is interviewed by LitHub’s Keen On podcast.
Apple TV+ will adapt Martha Wells’s “The Murderbot Diaries” series, with Alexander Skarsgård starring and executive producing, Tor.com reports.
Deadline reports that there’s a TV adaptation of Tad Williams’s four-book “Otherland” series in the works.
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