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Authors Are Opening Their Anthropic Settlement Notices and Finding Smaller Payments Than They Counted On
Much of the shortfall traces to a split with publishers and to old disputes over who holds the rights, and the Authors Guild says most of it can still be corrected.
End Times Fascism: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Map a Far Right Preparing to Survive the Collapse It Is Causing
Out on 15 September from Allen Lane, the book grows a 5,000-word Guardian essay into a 384-page argument that Christian Zionists, Silicon Valley accelerationists and border-hardening governments now share one belief, that a cataclysm is coming and only a deserving few need saving from it, and answers with a politics of staying put.
John Bissell's The Power of Negative Thinking Draws on 14 Years Rescuing Failing Businesses in Portland
The author lost a company of his own when a single client went bankrupt owing him 83% of his income, then coached more than 100 owners of failing businesses between 1986 and 2000. His practical guide argues that doubt and worry, used deliberately, are better preparation than forced positivity.
Tennessee Psychotherapist Judy K. Herman on Caregiver Burnout After Dolly Parton's Passing
Four days before she passed away, Parton said she was dealing with health issues she "just didn't pay attention to" while watching over Carl Dean. The Chattanooga relationship therapist, 20 years in practice, sees the same pattern most often in high-achieving women, and teaches a 90-second breathing practice to interrupt it.
Vivi Tran's Vietnam War Novel The Porch Light I Leave On Began at Her Memoir's Book Signings
The author's new novel, continuing Where the Leaves Fall, follows Tim, a veteran struggling with PTSD and the effects of Agent Orange, and Kate, the Vietnamese refugee his family sponsors.
Outback Odyssey Review: The Yorkshire Orphan Who Asked to Be Taught the Land
Paul Rushworth-Brown's post-war migrant novel sends a Yorkshire orphan by ship to a Gippsland sheep station, and its opening chapters are the author's own father's story.
Beautifully Unbroken Review: The Shower Shirt Inventor's Breast Cancer Memoir Begins with the Loss of Her Mother
The medical journalist who patented The Shower Shirt after her own mastectomy tells the story behind it, and the story of the mother she lost two weeks after her wedding, in a memoir that will be of most use to a woman with surgery ahead of her.
Call Out The Dogs Review: Anthony Eddolls Takes Agent Stilley From a Rome Murder to the Doors of the White House
The third Special Agent David Stilley adventure opens as a two-city murder case and finishes as a political thriller, written by an author who spent four decades in finance before turning to crime fiction from his home in Upcountry Maui.
Weekend Bookshelf: Upcoming New Titles for Your Soul
Five upcoming autumn 2026 titles on the power of writing, reflection and simplicity
Swan Song: Earl Spencer Tells His Sister's Story
A preview of Charles Spencer's forthcoming memoir Swan Song, Diana, My Sister, published this September ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of her death.
The Most Anticipated Memoirs This Autumn
This autumn's memoir crop reads less like a collection of celebrity stories and more like a season devoted to reckonings, a brother finally speaking for his sister, a journalist writing his way out of a Russian prison cell, a physicist's private letters made public for the first time.
The 10 Most Anticipated Books to Read This Autumn
Two very different reading moods define this autumn's list. Half the season is asking hard questions about how democracies actually fail. The other half is settling in with the people who have spent decades telling the truth about their own lives, often the funniest way possible.