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הספר שחזרתי אליו אחרי כמה שנים מצאתי את ״תיק נעדר״ של דרור משעני על המדף, והחלטתי לקרוא אותו שוב בלי לבדוק קודם אם אני זוכר את הסוף. מסתבר שאני זוכר חלקים, אבל לא את הדרך שבה הספר מגיע אליהם. מה שעובד כאן בעיניי הוא לא רק המתח. הדמויות מרגישות כמו אנשים שאפשר...
Semnele de carte care rămân în cărți Într-un volum primit recent pentru biblioteca de cartier am găsit un semn de carte făcut dintr-o bucată de calendar. Pe spate era scris cu creionul: „pagina 86 - să nu uit”. Nu avea nume și nici an, dar mi s-a părut mai pe...
Boky iray, fotoana iray, olona maro Rehefa mifidy boky ho an’ny vondrona mpamaky izahay, tsy ny hatevin’ny boky no jerena voalohany. Ny fahafahan’ny olona mahita ny heviny ao anatiny no zava-dehibe kokoa. Indraindray boky fohy, vakiana ao anatin’ny herinandro...
The Best Books I Own Are Often the Ones I Haven’t Finished There is a paperback on my nightstand that I have been reading for three months. It is not especially long, and I do like it. I have simply placed it behind two library books, a book of essays, and my...
A new novel about the complicated pull of home Richard Russo’s new novel, *Under the Falls*, sounds like the kind of book that understands why people leave a struggling town, but still feel responsible for what happens there. It follows a successful musician...
What a Zombies Art Book Can Preserve The new Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies: The Art of Treyarch collects previously unseen artwork alongside interviews with the developers. I like the idea of documenting the strange middle layer of game-making: not just the...
Ek het Saterdag by ’n tweedehandse boekwinkel ’n dun Suid-Afrikaanse roman gekry met iemand anders se potloodstrepe in die kantlyn. Party notas was net vraagtekens, ander het ’n sin onderstreep wat ek self sou miskyk. Ek wonder altyd: lees julle sulke merke,...
The Internet Has Started Writing the Songs Before We Do I keep thinking about how much of songwriting now happens before the song exists. Not the useful bit where you notice something on the bus and write it down badly. I mean the invisible audience that arri...
לא כל ספר צריך להסתיים כדי להישאר איתך יש לי כמה ספרים על השידה ליד המיטה, עם סימנייה באמצע ותחושה קצת לא נעימה שהם מחכים שאחזור. חלק מהם באמת טובים. זו בדיוק הבעיה. אני רוצה לקרוא אותם, אבל אחרי כמה עשרות עמודים משהו בהם מפסיק להתאים לקצב שלי, או שהחיים נכנס...
What a Library Sounds Like on a Wellington Stage I read the title aloud before I write about it: Local Library. The stress falls differently depending on whether you hear a place, a service, or a promise. Circa Theatre’s Wellington comedy seems interested in...
Why New Girl Still Feels Like a Place People Can Return To I have not read Thea Glassman’s new book yet, so this is partly a reaction to the idea of it rather than a proper review. Who’s That Girl: The Untold, Definitive History of New Girl is out now, with i...
मो यानका कथा अब नेपालीमा पढ्न पाइने Publication Nepalaya ले नोबेल पुरस्कार विजेता चिनियाँ लेखक मो यानका १९ वटा कथा र लघु उपन्यास नेपालीमा प्रकाशित गरेको समाचार पढेँ। अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय साहित्य आफ्नै भाषामा उपलब्ध हुनु, पुस्तक पसलको विषय मात्र होइन, सामुदायिक पाठ...
Fab 5 Freddy’s memoir sounds built for the ear Fab 5 Freddy’s conversation about *Everybody’s Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture* made me think about how much history lives in delivery. Names such as Warhol, Haring, and Basquiat arrive with d...
Çocuklara İstanbul’u anlatmanın iyi bir yolu: Kedilerden başlamak Bir çocuğa İstanbul’u anlatırken hemen saraylara, köprülere ve fetih tarihlerine gitmek gerekmiyor. Bazen şehrin en doğru giriş kapısı, öğle sıcağında bir dükkânın önünde uyuyan kedidir. İBB Ço...
The Pronunciation Notes I Keep Beside the Script Before I record a name, I write it twice: once as it appears on the page, and once in the roughest pronunciation guide I can make for myself. The second version is not meant for anyone else. It might contain a...
A quiet mystery for a rainy afternoon I’ve just finished one of those paperback mysteries where the village is suspicious, the weather is dreadful and everyone has a secret they’re pretending is perfectly ordinary. No acrobatics, no serial-killer theatrics, j...
The Library Bag I Keep Recommending There is a particular kind of library visit I love: someone comes in needing one book for a trip, a rainy weekend, or a few quiet evenings, and leaves with a small stack because we figured out what they actually enjoy. Not...
Marvel’s move west leaves a New York-shaped question Marvel plans to move its publishing operation from New York City to Burbank by July 2027. The announcement is mostly a corporate relocation story, but it also feels like a small chapter closing in the histo...
The New York Public Library Is Full of Details You Can Walk Past I have been inside the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building plenty of times, usually with the slightly chaotic energy of someone who meant to browse for twenty minutes and accidentally lost an afterno...
The Reading List Is Not a Contract My reading list has become less like a plan and more like a small, mildly judgmental weather system. It contains library holds, books recommended by friends, books I bought because the cover was good, and at least six titles...
Ein Krimi für heiße Tage, aber ohne Sommerleichtigkeit Am 29. Juli erscheint bei Limes Yukito Ayatsujis „Die Toten in der Wassermühle“ auf Deutsch. Der Schauplatz klingt sofort nach einem klassischen Rätselkrimi: eine abgelegene Mühle in den japanischen Berge...
Pri nekaterih romanih se mi zdi škoda, da jih berem samo zvečer, ko sem že napol zaspana. Trenutno imam na nočni omarici knjigo, pri kateri si podčrtujem stavke in se vračam za nekaj strani nazaj. Ni ravno zgodba za hitro požiranje, bolj za počasno družbo ob...
בעבודה על תוכן למיזם קהילתי אני מזכירה לעצמי לא פעם שלא כל טקסט צריך עוד משפט. לפעמים הוא צריך פחות עומס, דוגמה אחת ברורה, וכותרת שאפשר להבין גם כשקוראים מהר בטלפון. זה דומה קצת לביקור בספרייה: לפני שקונים או ממליצים, בודקים אם הדבר הזה באמת מתאים למי שעומד מ...
ಕನ್ನಡ ಕಥೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಮರಳಲು ಒಂದು ಚಹಾ ಅಂಗಡಿ ಸಾಕು ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯವನ್ನು ಓದಲು ಯಾವಾಗಲೂ ದೊಡ್ಡ ಕಾದಂಬರಿಯಿಂದಲೇ ಶುರು ಮಾಡಬೇಕೆಂದಿಲ್ಲ. ‘A Teashop in Kamalapura and Other Classic Kannada Stories’ ಸಂಕಲನವು 1900ರಿಂದ 1995ರವರೆಗೆ ಬಂದ ಕಥೆಗಳ ಮೂಲಕ ಆಧುನಿಕ ಕನ್ನಡ ಬರಹದ ಹಲವು ಹಂತಗಳನ್ನು ಒಂದೇ ಜಾಗದಲ...
الكتاب المستعمل كيجي ومعاه حياة زايدة نهار السبت شريت كتاب طبخ مستعمل من واحد الرف الصغير فالقهوة، ولقيت فيه ملاحظات بالقلم: «نقصي الملح»، «خليه يرتاح قبل التقديم»، وحتى تبديلة فمقادير الحريرة. بصراحة، هادشي عجبني كثر من كتاب جديد باقي نقي وما تقلباتش صفحاته....
The Broons and Oor Wullie Turn 90, and the Archives Are Coming Out There are more serious things in the National Library of Scotland’s collections than a boy with a spiky haircut and a suspiciously large vocabulary of complaints. There are also fewer things t...
The Wigtown Book Festival has announced its 2026 programme, with Bill Paterson discussing his book *Tales from the Back Green*. The festival runs from September 25 to October 4, and tickets are now on sale. I’m always pleased when a literary festival remember...
Een roman uit Paramaribo tussen de finalisten voor de Regenboogboekprijs Vanmorgen las ik dat Xillan Macrooy met zijn debuutroman *Mensen als zonnen en mensen als manen* een van de drie finalisten is voor de Regenboogboekprijs 2026. De nominatie werd zaterdag...
Finale çıkan takımın dili Kitapçıda maç izlerken raflar da sessizleşiyor. Türkiye’nin Çin’i 3-0 yenip VNL finaline çıkması, yalnızca skor tabelasında değil, takımın dilinde de netti: 25-21, 25-15, 25-20. Melissa Vargas’ın 23 sayısı ayrı bir paragraf zaten. Br...