- From Los Angeles Review of Books: The Marikana Massacre, five years later.
- From JD DeHart: Three questions with author Piers Anthony.
- From Paste: The best new young adult books for August.
- A Chinese novelist is arrested in 4 murders from 2 decades ago. Liu Yongbiao, author of The Guilty Secret, had planned a novel about a writer who got away with a series of killings.
- From The New York Times: The pioneering programmer Ellen Ullman discusses her career and the dangers the internet poses to culture, privacy and civility in her new book Life in Code.
- From The New York Times, Sue Grafton nears the end of her alphabet mysteries. Kinsey Millhone makes one of her last crime column appearances.
- From NPR: Sex is such an inextricable part of pop music, it’s easy to overlook, but NPR Music critic Ann Powers rectifies that in her new book, a portrait of America’s obsession with sex as it manifests in pop.
- From Los Angeles Review of Books: A review of Eka Kurniawan’s Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash.
- From NPR: The lazy days of August call for getaway reading, so we’ve got three romances that’ll take you from old China to the small-town South, featuring couples who learn love is closer than they think.
- From Los Angeles Review of Books: A review of Yuri Slezkine’s The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution. You can also read an excerpt from the book.
- From NPR: A review of How To Behave In A Crowd.
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