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How Liberalism Became a Dirty Word
How liberalism became a dirty word in both progressive universities and right-wing politics, and what it will take to reclaim it. ...
Author events this week at Albuquerque and Santa Fe bookstores
Local bookstores including
Book Review: ‘Take Me With You,’ by Steven Rowley
Steven Rowley’s new novel, “Take Me With You,” asks who we are without our partners. ...
Propellor One-Way Night Coach review: John Travolta family plane fantasy is a short-haul joyride
Cannes film festival: Travolta directs and narrates this 60-minute adaptation of his own short story about a boy who dreams of being a pilot
Books to Review
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BOOK REVIEW: 'Skylark' spans centuries in France
"Skylark," by Paula McLain, (Atria Books), 2026, 449 Pages, $30.00 hardcover. ...
Book Review: ‘Attention-Seeking Behavior,’ by Aea Varfis-van Warmelo
Aea Varfis-van Warmelo’s novel follows a commitment-averse liar who is plagued by visions of violence. ...
Book Review: ‘Take Me to Your Leader,’ by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The popular astrophysicist can be witty and informative when making science accessible. You wouldn’t know it from his new book, “Take Me to Your Leader.” ...
What Is a Bookstore Without Books?
Booksellers are trying to figure out how to market audiobooks in person. At a new pop-up, Audible is betting on listening rooms, branded merch and “story tenders.” ...
Posthumous Jilly Cooper story to hit shelves if final draft can be ‘pieced together’ by team
‘Rivals’ author died from a fatal head injury aged 88 in October last year
Bam! Pow! Krakoom! The everlasting allure of the American comic book
They reveal values, societal issues and enduring burdens of extraordinary abilities. ...
Review: An Accidental Lawyer by KK Venugopal
The former Attorney
HT Picks; New Reads
This week’s pick of interesting
Deepa Anappara: “Female explorers were seen as having loose morals”
On her new novel, The
Liberalism Under Siege: A Blueprint for Revival
Bloomberg columnist Adrian Wooldridge explains what liberalism really is and why both illiberal populists and progressive activists threaten its survival. ...
‘I’m so grateful I got to live these days’: A Ghost in the Throat author ...
The acclaimed author and poet talks about her new book, telling the true stories of patients at a derelict Victorian psychiatric hospital – a place in which she might have found herself at a different time
This day in history: A big racket was being made about a new tennis center
From 1976: A longtime “dream of many Spokane racket enthusiasts” – the Mission Tennis Center in Mission Park – was “about to become a reality.” The Spokane Park Department unveiled a plan that would renovate the park’s four existing tennis
This week’s bestsellers from Publishers Weekly
Bestsellers Tribune News Service Fiction 1. “Fury Bound: A Wolves of Ruin Novel,” Sable Sorensen (Requited) 2. “26 Beauties: A Women’s Murder Club Thriller,” James Patterson (Little, Brown) 3. “Yesteryear: A Novel,” Caro Claire Burke (Knopf) 4. “The Calamity
Why AI safety controls are not very effective
SAN FRANCISCO – When companies like Anthropic, Google and OpenAI build their artificial intelligence systems, they spend months adding ways to prevent people from using their technology to spread disinformation, build weapons or hack into computer networks.
Book Of The Week: Séamas O'Reilly's Prestige Drama is a must-read
James Patterson reviews the blackly comedic debut novel from the Irish Times columnist and author of acclaimed memoir Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? There’s not enough cynicism anymore. Too much of what we’re offered in a world gone mad amounts to little more than
The Guardian view on Middlemarch: the greatest novel in the English language | Editorial
George Eliot’s masterpiece of provincial life still has much to teach us about sympathy and tolerance
'Fantasies of a young Arab lover': The secret gay scene of Mandatory Palestine
British officers, archaeologists and administrators who came to Palestine during the first half of the last century were drawn not only by its historical or religious past, but by fantasies of erotic freedom in the 'Orient' ...
Why Absolute Jafar is Sarnath Banerjee\u2019s most personal and tender graphic novel yet
In Absolute Jafar,
How Ananda Lal Rewrites the Conversation Around Indian Theatre History in new book Centrestage
In Centrestage,
Seattle Mariners’ late strategy fails in shutout loss to Padres
SEATTLE – The ongoing “criticism” about the Mariners’ usage/reliance on platoons as a strategy has been a popular topic on the yelling halls of the social media platform X. Fans dislike the idea of Luke Raley and Dom Canzone being removed from games for either
Yassel Soler’s late double sends Hops over Indians 5-4
HILLSBORO, Ore. – Yassel Soler hit a two-run double in the seventh inning, breaking a tie and sending the Hillsboro Hops to a 5-4 win over the
Cal Raleigh talks about going on injured list for first time: ‘It’s going to suck’
SEATTLE – Cal Raleigh carefully sat down on top of the bench in the Mariners dugout at T-Mobile Park with a full crew of media waiting to ask him about his first stint on the injured list. He didn’t wince or move gingerly to signal that his strained right
Quincy Schuerman delivers walk-off single in ninth inning, Mt. Spokane softball edges Kennewick in 3A district title game
Mt. Spokane catcher Quincy Schuerman just seems to find herself in the middle of the action. She delivered a walk-off single in the State 3A slowpitch championship game in October, and she did the same on Friday in the fastpitch district championship. With two
Who’s in, who’s out, and how many have you read? The story behind our 100 ...
Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights; Ulysses or Catch-22 Find out which title came top, as chosen by authors, critics and academics worldwide