Watergate reporter says Trump is far worse than Nixon and ‘most reckless and impulsive president in American history’The Middle East and Ukraine are ablaze, the US mired in turmoil. An octogenarian president recedes from view. The threat of a second Trump term hangs like the sword of Damocles.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-10-20 15:39:32 UTC ]
Broadcaster NDR launches investigation after Hubert Seipel admits receiving support for work on two books on Russian leaderA German publisher has announced a stop to the sale of books authored by a leading journalist and Russia expert after an investigation showed he had received at least... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-11-15 14:31:23 UTC ]
A debut novel from Kira Yarmysh, a longtime critic of Vladimir Putin, offers an intimate look at political imprisonment. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-02-06 10:00:09 UTC ]
Journalist Philip Short asks what motivates Putin — and blames the United States for some of his bad behavior. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-07-22 12:00:04 UTC ]
The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine weighs in on Vladimir Putin’s war against the country, as well as Donald Trump’s past attacks on her character. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-03-25 10:00:00 UTC ]
The leadership of 14 international book fairs in 13 nations agree to suspend contact with Russian state institutions and agencies. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Free Expression and Critical Voices’ e continue to receive new messages relative to Vladimir Putin’s war on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-03-08 01:04:51 UTC ]
Understanding the Ukraine crisis: a comprehensive reading list on Russia, Ukraine, and the rise of Vladimir Putin. | Lit Hub History Jane Pek considers Pride and Prejudice, the gay marriage movement, and the choice to marry. | Lit Hub Memoir Why Ed Simon mentally crosses his fingers when saying,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-02-26 11:30:00 UTC ]
As you may have noticed, Barack Obama has a book out today. It’s a memoir, titled A Promised Land, that runs to more than seven-hundred pages and is still only a first volume—covering the period from Obama’s childhood to the raid, in 2011, that killed Osama bin Laden. Originally, Obama planned... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-11-17 13:29:32 UTC ]
It smelled like Clinton’s emails redux. Last Wednesday, the Murdoch-owned New York Post published a bizarre story, sliming Joe Biden and his son Hunter, that it said was based on files (including, yes, emails) from a laptop that a man who may or may not have been Hunter left in a Delaware... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-10-19 12:20:19 UTC ]
Vladimir Putin: Life Coach, edited by Rob Sears—who compiled the Christmas 2017 hit, The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump—has been signed by Canongate. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Man-bear love in Saddam Hussein's romance novel, Vladimir Putin's judo manual, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Biteback Publishing, has acquired Berlusconi: the Epic Story of the Billionaire Who Took Over by Alan Friedman. M.d Iain Dale acquired UK rights from Caroline Michel at Peters, Fraser and Dunlop. Berlusconi tells the life story - “warts and all” - of the Italian media tycoon and billionaire... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Political editor admits regret over row with Alex Salmond during independence campaign but says response was unjustifiedThe BBC political editor Nick Robinson has compared protests against his coverage of the Scottish independence referendum to treatment of the media in Vladimir Putin’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
When its publisher announced in early 2015 that The Festival of Insignificance, Milan Kundera’s first novel in 13 years, would be a “summation of his life’s work,” fans were giddy with anticipation. With uncanny prescience, Kundera’s previous books all but predicted our Instagram era—what would... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2015-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Atlantic has signed a novel which revolves around a senile future version of Vladimir Putin. Editor James Roxburgh has acquired world rights to The Senility of Vladimir P by Michael Honig in a deal with Ben Evans at the Oyster Bridge Agency. Set around 20 years in the future, the story... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Atlantic has signed a book by former Chess world champion and Russian pr-democracy leader Garry Kasparov. Senior editor James Nightingale acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must be Stopped in a deal... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]