An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

B ooks are about to become a little less “Spellbinding!”, “Stunning!” and “Compelling!” Fewer still will offer a “tour de ...

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

Here’s a lot of the great, the good and the downright awful Australians who have represented the Blues in that time... Pompey paid West Ham £400,000 to land the Australian central defender in ...

But also, and I don’t like to look back, our results in La Liga, it’s not good. Of course ... point lead of their own slip away, with a dreadful run of just two wins in the league since ...

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

He was having a very good match, so I was baffled when he was substituted. At the time, it made no sense, but we do operate a squad rotation policy and it will occasionally throw up surprises. I’ve ...

What it means to be good — or not — is the infected wound ... skating on the sliver of fame produced by his one published book. Claiming that “being unemployed is the most radical thing ...

(What? Just me?) There’s no such thing as an excess of good books, but the roster of forthcoming publications is certainly staggering. Fiction lovers have much to look forward to, with incoming ...

and domestic thriller books alongside the locked room, murder, and historical mysteries—there are just too many good books out there. Know that for every title on this list, there were three ...

The actress, model and author discusses her upcoming fourth book, an intimate and empowering exploration of aging that redefines what it means for a woman to grow older. Up Next in culture Brooke ...

This book is best for fans of dark academia. Elle Gonzalez Rose’s The Girl You Know is available from publisher Bloomsbury. One of the best covers of 2025, All Better Now is a thriller about a ...