Going back further, John Dominis Holt’s “Waimea Summer” remains a beloved novel. There’s also S.N. Haleʻole, a contemporary of David Malo, who wrote “The Hawaiian Romance of Lāʻieikawai,” often cited ...

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Taranto writes that Saunders can't seem to describe any of his character’s “sympathetic attributes” without an addendum pointing to his deep flaws, turning what could have been a fine character study ...

A new social network called Moltbook has been created for AIs, allowing machines to interact and talk to each other. Within ...

Crime, thrillers, essays, ghost stories and works in translation are among those being published by indie press publishers.

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Umama Ali spent more time as a kid arguing with his brother over who caused the most chaos in GTA Vice City than doing homework, and he’s been unapologetically hooked on games ever since. That ...

Andrew Robinson is the author of Lost Languages (2002) and other books on scripts and decipherment. He is based in London. How the world’s largest language family spread — and why others go extinct ...

It’s easy for an aspiring novelist to envy writers who describe their characters as full-fledged people demanding to be committed to the page. For Elizabeth McCracken, however, writing is not at all ...

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In these final days of 2025, Ivanka Trump has shared her favorite reads of the year on X. The Planet Harvest co-founder and daughter of President Donald Trump posted a list of books that she says ...