In his sixth book, author and poet Hanif Abdurraqib explores the romance of basketball and what it means to leave a legacy.
Hanif Abdurraqib explores the romance of basketball in new book ‘There’s Always This Year’
Category: Books
Biblioracle: Tana French is a modern master in her latest novel ‘The Hunter’
With “The Searcher” and now “The Hunter,” Tana French is taking the elements of crime novels and showing us how the stories unfurl from the perspectives not of the investigators, but those affected.
Cristina Henriquez and the secret to writing a (good) historical novel
“The Great Divide” is set a century ago during the digging of the Panama Canal, and not on the fringes, but among men constructing it.
Biblioracle: ‘Literary Theory for Robots’ gives us a history of writing by machines
Dennis Yi Tenen reminds us that technology cannot exist independently of its creators and users, and ultimately humans hold the final responsibility for technology’s impact.
With Bond’s gizmos now at the MSI, a pause to remember Ian Fleming
It started in January 1952, when a hard-drinking, chain-smoking 43-year-old man sat down at a typewriter and banged out a novel that began, “The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.”
Biblioracle: Is it OK to fold a page in a novel? No. And my other rules for book lovers.
I was on a plane recently when I saw what I believed to be a great crime being committed.
‘Monumental’ spotlights Oscar Dunn, the first elected Black lieutenant governor in Louisiana and US
Brian Mitchell, an Illinois historian, wrote a graphic novel that shares Oscar Dunn’s story with the hopes of educating people about his ancestor.
Library book clubs offer opportunity to forge connections over shared interests
“Book discussion groups provide a neutral or safe space for people with a shared interest to engage in dialogue with people that they don’t already know,” said the leader of the Coffee Cake & Crime book club at the Frankfort library.
The Newberry Library’s first female president is making big plans
If you don’t know this Chicago gem on Walton Street well, its new leader Astrida Orle Tantillo is determined to make you aware of it.
Biblioracle: Percival Everett has done it again with ‘James,’ a novel that reimagines ‘Huck Finn’
“James” is a retelling of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the point of view of Huck’s enslaved companion, Jim.