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June 06, 2015

A Gentleman in Moscow to start streaming March 29

Book Club favorite and one of the Top 20 BookBrowse Books of 2016, A Gentleman in Moscow is premiering as an eight part series on Paramount Plus on 3/29. The series stars Ewan McGregor as Count Rostov - you can read more about the book and our beyond the book article on the Hotel Metropol here,...

National Book Critics Circle Awards announced

Last night the National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of its 2023 awards - here are the list of winners below: 2023 National Book Critics Circle Awards Winners NBCC Award for Fiction:I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore NBCC Award for Nonfiction:We Were Once a Family...

Frans de Waal, who found the origins of morality in apes, dies at 75

Frans de Waal, who used his study of the inner lives of animals to build a powerful case that apes think, feel, strategize, pass down culture and act on moral sentiments — and that humans are not quite as special as many like to think — died on Thursday at his home in Stone Mountain, Ga. He was...

'So happy you're here': how a librarian became an advocate for mental health

Mychal Threets has become a TikTok star thanks to his tales from life in the stacks, along with affirmations and forthright commentary on mental health that have brought him nearly 800,000 followers and millions of views. His sunny attitude – the California librarian is frequently compared to Mr...

China Nobel prize winner tarred as one of 'three new evils' amid rise in nationalist fervour

Mo Yan is widely celebrated in China but now faces a lawsuit accusing him of smearing the Communist party amid an increasingly febrile atmosphere online.

ALA reports record spike in book titles challenged in 2023

The American Library Association announced today that the number of unique titles targeted for censorship surged 65% in 2023 compared to 2022, once again hitting record levels. In a release, ALA officials said that 4,240 unique book titles were reported challenged in schools and libraries in 2023,...

Bookish Oscar winners

At last night's Academy Awards ceremony, several movies based on books or with book connections took home Oscars. Shelf Awareness rounds up the major category bookish winners including Oppenheimer, based on the biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin; Poor Things, based...

Three publishing veterans form new company to put the author at the center

Madeline McIntosh and Don Weisberg, who have served as CEO of Penguin Random House US and Macmillan, respectively, have joined forces with Nina von Moltke, most recently president and director of strategic development at PRH US, to form a new publishing company, Authors Equity. As its name implies,...

Court orders Amazon e-book monopoly lawsuit to proceed

A federal judge has formally adopted a magistrate judge's recommendation that a consumer class action lawsuit accusing Amazon of anticompetitive conduct in the e-book market be allowed to proceed. But in adopting the magistrate's recommendation, the court also officially dismissed all...

In Georgia, a bill to cut all ties with the American Library Association is advancing

Those who've been trying to remove certain books from childrens' sections at public libraries are now taking aim at what they see as a source of the problem: the American Library Association. A growing number of states and local libraries are cutting ties with the nation's...

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