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15 books that you have to read this summer!
Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing Gyasi’s brilliantly conceived, artfully written first novel spans nearly three centuries of African and American history. She begins with two half-sisters born of the same mother in different villages on Africa’s Gold Coast. “Separated sisters,” Gyasi writes, “are like a woman...
Apple’s Book, Film Services Go Dark In China
Apple Inc’s <AAPL.O> online book and film services have gone dark in China, after Beijing introduced regulations in March imposing strict curbs on online publishing, particularly for foreign firms. Attempts by Reuters to access Apple’s iBooks Store and iTunes Movies services were met with a message in Chinese...
Bible makes list of books most challenged at libraries, public schools
On the latest list of books most objected to at public schools and libraries, one title has been targeted nationwide, at times for the sex and violence it contains, but mostly for the legal issues it raises. The Bible. "You have people who feel that if a school library buys a copy of the Bible, it's a violation of...
BBC Culture polled book critics outside the UK, to give an outsider’s perspective on the best in British literature
What does the rest of the world see as the greatest British novels? In search of a collective critical assessment, BBC Culture contributor Jane Ciabattari polled 82 book critics, from Australia to Zimbabwe – but none from the UK. This list includes no nonfiction, no plays, no narrative or epic poems (no Paradise Lost or...