2+ hour, 7+ min ago (23+ words) Native American speculative fiction has been undergoing a renaissance in the last few years. The popularity of Stephen Graham Jones's horror novels......

10+ hour, 7+ min ago (237+ words) The Crossword Book Awards have been around for years now, becoming one of India's most loved literary honours. What was the original vision behind the awards, and how has its legacy evolved? How do these awards help nurture India's reading ecosystem? What do you believe sets the Crossword Book Awards apart from other literary recognitions in the country? The longlist, shortlist, and popular choice categories provide a unique opportunity for books across genres to shine. Can you share how these layers of selection encourage diversity in storytelling? What role does physical retail still play in a world where online book buying has massively expanded? Regional literature is seeing a renaissance. How do you view the future of translations in India's literary landscape? What do you think is the biggest misconception about reading habits among young Indians today? Audiobooks and digital-first…...

11+ hour, 36+ min ago (680+ words) The US author and orator on leaf blowers and Labubus, the weirdest thing she has done for love and struggling with contemporary novels I would like to ask your opinion on five things. First of all, leaf blowers. I like dinner parties at other people's houses. I do not give them. I think the world is divided between guest and host. I'm a guest. And I'm old, so I generally don't get stuck at dinner parties I don't like any more because I'm a very good judge of dinner parties before I go to them. I guess it's nice people do it, but truthfully, I cannot think of a more solitary activity than reading " which is one of the reasons I love to read. I don't have any animus against the idea, but it certainly doesn't appeal to me. I…...

16+ hour, 37+ min ago (1361+ words) This article appears in the January 2026 print edition with the headline "How Terror Works." ... Listen to more stories on hark In 24 days during the fall of 1946, a German novelist known as Hans Fallada produced a rare, and now especially timely, literary touchstone: a humane depiction of muted resistance. Every Man Dies Alone was based on a Gestapo file detailing the case of a Berlin couple who had run an illicit two-year postcard-writing campaign aimed at rebutting Hitler's propaganda. The novel was published in 1947part of a postwar effort to start de-Nazifying German literature. Explore the January 2026 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. Mere weeks before his book came out, Rudolf Ditzen (Fallada was a pen name) died at 53, weakened after a long struggle with alcoholism and morphine addiction. He'd faced criminal trouble too…...

18+ hour, 36+ min ago (825+ words) Galen Fries is a United States Army and Army National Guard veteran with thirty years of service, including deployments in support of Operations Desert Shield/Storm and Iraqi Freedom III. A Forward Artillery Observer, he also served on pre-deployment training teams and is a certified instructor in mental resilience, land navigation, small arms, and fire support techniques. Following his military career, Fries trained students in electrical, plumbing, and carpentry disciplines at Clover Park Technical College. A lifelong prepper and advocate for self-reliance, he is the author of Up To Speed: A Prepper's Guide and is currently working on a military fiction novel exploring survival, morality, and human resilience in the aftermath of collapse. November doesn't get the glamor. No summer offensives, no parades, no "campaign season" speeches. But history keeps handing it the receipts. When the weather turns, and daylight shrinks,…...

22+ hour, 25+ min ago (1302+ words) News Welcome to Books & Articles Weekly. Welcome to the @kr & @cryotosensei show! If it wasn't for them, this territory would have been a ghost town last week. I don't know what happened. Zaps and engagement were light. Maybe the Thanksgiving holiday in the US had something to do with it. Well, onward and upward. Thanks to everyone who contributed. There is a zap award for the top 5 posts weekly. It will be broken down as follows: 1000 sats 250 sats 250 sats 250 sats 250 sats Posts will be judged using SN zaprank. The cut off time is 9:00am EST (1300GMT) Saturday morning. I will post the top 5 winners shortly around 9:00am every Saturday morning. I reserve the right to not award any sats for the week. I also reserve the right to deny sat awards to bare link posts. I recognize that link posts can be valuable,…...

23+ hour, 31+ min ago (181+ words) Here are the queer books that made it onto NPR's Books We Love list, from Actress of a Certain Age to When They Burned the Butterfly. Danika spends most of their time talking about sapphic books at the'Lesbrary. View All posts by Danika Ellis My search for the queer books on the Best Books of the Year lists continues! This time, I combed through NPR's staggering 384-title "Books We Love" list. I found about 30 queer books included, which isn't a ton comparatively, but it's still interesting to see what they did pick. As always, this is not a foolproof system: it's just me browsing through the list and noting the queer books I know of. It's very likely I missed some! I also decided to include the tags NPR gave each title. You can filter their list by tag, but…...

23+ hour, 33+ min ago (330+ words) I love diaries " physical, bound paper books filled with handwriting " more and more as the digital has taken over so much of our lives. I have an existential terror of losing my human coherence, my voice, to the chatbot. Human thought, expression and experience are being commodified, thrown into a blender that spits out clich's and other slop. I found a diary abandoned in a shoe box at a Manhattan Mini Storage down the street from my apartment a few years ago. It was a window into another person's being, something I wouldn't have gotten any other way. Alongside a pair of emerald platform heels, the box held not a neat, red-bound volume secured by a tiny lock, but loose pages, torn from a notebook. Written in olive ink. I found myself nodding and gripping my pen as if we…...

23+ hour, 45+ min ago (641+ words) One of the minor subplots of Olga Tokarczuk's novel "House of Day, House of Night" involves a drifter named Leo, who was injured in a mining accident as a young man and lives off state compensation. He is something of an astrologer, obsessed with the sequences of numbers that underlie the universe. When his wife dies, he becomes a "proper clairvoyant": Images that had been suppressed for years began to surface in his head and spread like frost on a damp windowpane " they linked arms unexpectedly and made rings and fancy sequences; quite at random they built bewitching patterns that made perfect sense. Leo's abilities shouldn't be taken entirely at face value: He's a little crazy. But this description of his mental processes could also apply to the novel itself. Tokarczuk, a Nobel laureate who first published this book in…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago (655+ words) The book is a fine compendium of dates, data and details. One also realises the change as Subhas Bose emerged on stage If rated just by the depth of research and assimilation of information, Gautam Hazarikas The Forgotten Indian Prisoners of World War II will surely feature near the top of any list of non-fiction Indian books. A historical narrative is difficult to create, and the author has done this with aplomb. The general picture of the Indian Independence League (IIL) and the resultant Indian National Army (INA), as held by post-Independence Indians, has been a romantic one, laced with patriotic songs and generative rhetoric. This book deconstructs the lacy, frilly narratives and tells detailed stories of incidents that, as the author describes, spelt surrender, loyalty, betrayal and hell, complete with spies, double and triple-cross operatives, hope, desperation and massacres. Captain…...