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    Choosing your next book

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 26/06/2022

    » By some measures, the book business is doing better than ever. Last year, readers bought nearly 827 million print books, an increase of roughly 10% over 2020, and a record since NPD BookScan began tracking two decades ago.

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    Top US officials deny 'gutless' editorial

    AFP, Published on 06/09/2018

    » WASHINGTON: Donald Trump's top lieutenants scrambled Thursday to deny authorship of an explosive op-ed article that has plunged his presidency into crisis by proclaiming secret insider resistance to his reckless, "amoral" leadership.

  • WORLD

    Hercule Poirot to return in new novel

    AFP, Published on 04/09/2013

    » LONDON - Agatha Christie's mustachioed detective Hercule Poirot is to be resurrected in a new novel nearly 40 years after his last adventures, it was announced on Wednesday.

  • WORLD

    50 Years of Making Beautiful Books

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 03/04/2022

    » The last book that will ever bear the David R Godine imprint is, fittingly, by David Godine himself. It's called Godine at Fifty: A Retrospective of Five Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher, and it's a safe bet that the people who these days run his company (now called just Godine) will never put out such a volume again.

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    'Nation's psychiatrist' takes stock

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 13/03/2022

    » A new book by Dr Thomas P Insel, who for 13 years ran the United States' foremost mental health research institution, begins with a sort of confession.

  • WORLD

    Suppressed culture makes bestseller

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/02/2023

    » Two days after Christmas, Ann-Helen Laestadius found herself being gently pummelled by reindeer.

  • WORLD

    Spooks and kooks on a Japanese island

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 07/05/2023

    » Most Japanese schoolchildren know the kappa as a trickster who looks like a cross between a frog and a turtle with an indented head. If you're not careful, it could drag you into the river to drown. The tengu, identifiable by its bright red face and long nose, lurks in the woods. Beware of the tanuki, a supernatural variation of a raccoon dog, for it may make a fool of you when it crosses your path.

  • WORLD

    Tiny literary shoots take root

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/04/2023

    » Before Sally Rooney was the author of bestselling books, and well before those books became buzzy television series, she was an undergraduate student at Trinity College Dublin with a growing pile of unpublished poems and no contacts in the writing world. Her first break came in 2010, when The Stinging Fly, a small Irish literary magazine, agreed to publish her work.

  • WORLD

    How to run a fashion magazine in China

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/03/2023

    » Two years ago, when Conde Nast announced that Margaret Zhang would be the next editor-in-chief of Vogue China, many in the fashion media were taken aback.

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    Bill Nighy, master of misdirection

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 29/01/2023

    » British actor Bill Nighy was trying to describe how he prepared for his character in the new drama Living. He plays Mr Williams, a buttoned-up, almost catatonically reticent bureaucrat in post-World War II London who, upon learning that he is dying, decides finally to live.

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