25+ min ago  (287+ words) Maria Reva's dark, comedic novel "Endling" won the 2026 Aspen Words Literary Prize on April 23. The award honors works of fiction that illuminate vital contemporary issues. Reva's novel explores hope, love and survival in times of encroaching darkness and focuses on…...

10+ hour, 19+ min ago  (228+ words) Lena Dunham just shared that her new memoir, Famesick, landed at No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list. "I am bowled over by the support you have shown Famesick," she wrote. Congratulations are in order for Lena Dunham....

8+ hour, 57+ min ago  (25+ words) In "All In The Telling," Rubinek's partly-fictionalized memoir, he tells his parents he's writing a Holocaust story to solve a family fight....

8+ hour, 57+ min ago  (372+ words) By Olivia Haynie April 28, 2026 All In The Telling: A Somewhat True Story By Saul Rubinek Redwood Publishing, 324 pages, $35. 50 Saul Rubinek's new book opens with a nightmare: a pitch black void that is slowly filled with criss-crossing white bars until whiteness…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (100+ words) Apr 28, 2026 " A new book set in the Adirondacks is both a hero's journey, and the story of a father-daughter relationship. "Before I Forget" is the latest novel from Vermont author Tory Henwood Hoen. In it, an adrift twenty-something named Cricket…...

13+ hour, 28+ min ago  (519+ words) Title: Go-Between Girl: My Indentured Roots as Reclaimed Present Publisher: Mc Clelland & Stewart As a child, author Andrea Gunraj knew little about how her ancestors arrived from India to present-day Guyana. The sole story she heard made her shy away…...

17+ hour, 36+ min ago  (182+ words) Comic Newtype has announced that part 2 of chapter 35 of the ongoing spinoff manga of A Certain Magical Index, A Certain Scientific Mental Out, is now available in Japanese for free for a limited time. The next chapter is planned to…...

12+ hour, 29+ min ago  (769+ words) Jo-Anne Berelowitz grew up in South Africa before moving to the U. S. and finding her way to Texas. By Sarah Asch April 28, 202612: 01 pm Arts & Culture, Books, Texas Standard Original Sarah Asch / Texas Standard When Jo-Anne Berelowitz was about ten years old,…...

18+ hour, 34+ min ago  (904+ words) Over Zoom in January, Han and I discussed her folkloric inspirations, learning about the legacy of comfort women, and the subversive possibilities of magical realism." Morgan Ome: I was really moved by the letter of introduction you include in the…...

18+ hour, 32+ min ago  (529+ words) We all know Rachel Goldberg-Polin, a woman whose raison d'tre was to fight, advocate, and plead for her sons safe return to anyone who would listen. Her son, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, was kidnapped on October 7, 2023, in Israel at a music festival…...