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A Graphic Novelist Captures the Lives of Vermont Lesbians Ahead of Their Time 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/lOIc5Bq

A Graphic Novelist Captures the Lives of Vermont Lesbians Ahead of Their Time

Leaning on a rich written record, the graphic novelist Tillie Walden used nearby resources to visualize the true story of seamstresses who shared a home for decades.

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A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/kPM4auo

A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline

I was standing in line at Chaucer’s Books, my local indie, when it occurred to me that the line was longer than usual. This has been happening regularly enough that I’ve stopped being s…

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‘We can’t give up on Afghans’: Lyse Doucet on the remarkable ‘people’s history’ that won her the Women’s prize 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/8ECxWzk

‘We can’t give up on Afghans’: Lyse Doucet on the remarkable ‘people’s history’ that won her the...

The BBC’s chief international correspondent was awarded the prestigious nonfiction prize for The Finest Hotel in Kabul – which she hopes will bring more attention to the Taliban’s draconian treatment...

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David Plowden, Who Photographed a Disappearing America, Dies at 93 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/KHgoYsk

David Plowden, Who Photographed a Disappearing America, Dies at 93

With his haunting images of steam locomotives, steel mills and Midwestern farms, the celebrated lensman revealed the poetry in the artifacts of manual labor.

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Jun 13

The Books Times Readers Are Most Excited About This Summer 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/45U6sxP

The Books Times Readers Are Most Excited About This Summer

Lush historical fiction, gripping thrillers, true crime, laugh-out-loud essays and more: Here are the books you’ve saved most to your reading lists.

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Jun 13

70 brilliant books for the summer 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/NTdwzKQ

70 brilliant books for the summer

From dynamite debuts to must-read memoirs and magical children’s fiction, here’s our selection of this year’s hottest holiday reads. Plus leading authors share their favourites

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Jun 13

This Week’s Bestsellers: June 15, 2026 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/AHdXIbV

This Week’s Bestsellers: June 15, 2026

Ann Patchett’s latest, Whistler, takes the top spot on our hardcover fiction list. Plus Land is Maggie O’Farrell’s first novel since the release of Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet adaptation, and Dr. Seuss’s...

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Jun 13

Book of the Month Club Keeps It 100 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/u4cMGev

Book of the Month Club Keeps It 100

Since its relaunch under John Lippman 10 years ago, the century-old book club’s curatorial prowess and bold marketing campaigns have won over Gen-Z readers.

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Jun 12

Ruth Ozeki on Her Favorite Books and Her New Collection, ‘The Typing Lady’ 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/0BZVKjI

Ruth Ozeki on Her Favorite Books and Her New Collection, ‘The Typing Lady’

She wanted to learn about pyramids, and ended up with hallucinatory sex scenes. Her new book is a provocation: Just what genre is it anyway?

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Jun 12

To read more this summer, stop waiting for the perfect moment 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/lwMLqaG

To read more this summer, stop waiting for the perfect moment

So you want to ignite a reading habit this summer. How do you get back into the groove? We talk to reading enthusiasts for their best tricks — like allowing yourself to read wherever, whenever.

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Jun 12

Book Deals: Week of June 15, 2026 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/dMmLJyV

Book Deals: Week of June 15, 2026

Atria reteams with newly minted Pulitzer winner Daniel Kraus, Riverhead wins Jesse Baron’s investigation into the pitfalls of the patient-therapist dynamic, and more.

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Jun 12

‘The Correspondent’ and ‘The Finest Hotel in Kabul’ Win The Women’s Prize 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/AQImUYi

‘The Correspondent’ and ‘The Finest Hotel in Kabul’ Win The Women’s Prize

'Remarkable' and 'perfect' debut books took the top prize for this year's award which champions women writers…

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Jun 12

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/kPhc4KU

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Our flock of fabulous reviews this week includes Scaachi Khol on Jill Biden’s View From the East Wing, Lincoln Michel on Deb Olin Unferth’s Earth 7, Michael Faber on M. John Harrison…

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Jun 12

Catapult Workers Win Unionization Vote 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/N5cx1hr

Catapult Workers Win Unionization Vote - Publishers Lunch

An “overwhelming majority” of eligible Catapult employees voted to form a union with the National Labor Relations Board, the union announced on social media. They will now bargain for a contract with...

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Jun 12

Fonograf Editions Reinvents Bunny Presse 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/qwmzT8C

Fonograf Editions Reinvents Bunny Presse

The Portland, Ore., indie publisher and record label is relaunching its literary imprint with an exclusively queer focus, tapping author Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore as the imprint’s editor and...

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Jun 12

Higher Ed Sales Boost McGraw Hill’s Profits for the Year 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/Z0Ly72O

Higher Ed Sales Boost McGraw Hill's Profits for the Year - Publishers Lunch

On Thursday, McGraw Hill released results for their fourth quarter and full year ended March 31. Sales fell 2 percent in the quarter to $464 million, down $9.5 million, “reflecting a smaller K‑12...

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Jun 12

Obituary: Jane Yolen 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/gjvMFdD

Obituary: Jane Yolen - Publishers Lunch

Jane Yolen, 87, author of 450 books, died on June 11. Yolen’s books include Holocaust novella The Devil’s Arithmetic, plus 40 other novels. Her final novel MONSTER OF FIFE: TERROR BIRDS will be...

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Jun 12

Elle Kennedy on Off Campus and Making Her YA Debut 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/PBcQW4j

Elle Kennedy on Off Campus and Making Her YA Debut

The TV adaptation of Kennedy’s hit hockey romance series has quickly become one of Amazon’s biggest shows. Now, the author is looking ahead to season two and, later this month, publishing her first...

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Jun 12

ULC Launches Public Library Journalism Initiative 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/HPm5uRV

ULC Launches Public Library Journalism Initiative

Eight public libraries will receive grants of $7,500–$10,000 to establish civic education and local news programs, through a partnership between the Urban Libraries Council and democratic alliance...

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Jun 12

Book Review: ‘Drayton and Mackenzie,’ by Alexander Starritt 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/hswLEiW

Book Review: ‘Drayton and Mackenzie,’ by Alexander Starritt

In “Drayton and Mackenzie,” two young grads navigating the 2008 financial crisis enact a plan they hope will change their fate.