Zuckerberg's book club pick: 'The End of Power' deals with 'microplayers,' like Hezbollah, hedge funds, and startups

'The End of Power' – a respected, though modestly-selling, nonfiction book – has now been launched to a global audience thanks to Mark Zuckerberg. Continue reading at 'The Christian Science Monitor'

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The authors taking on Mark Zuckerberg – podcast

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The Rock to co-author true crime book about Hawaii mob boss to be adapted by Martin Scorsese

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Watch the Book Trailer for Sophy Roberts’s Bestselling A Training School for Elephants.

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7 New Nonfiction Book Releases of April 2025

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Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him | Marina Hyde

Whether the Meta boss and his ex-lieutenant Sheryl Sandberg are truly beyond awful is neither here nor there. I thought he was done with factcheckingI am as shocked as I am confused that Mark Zuckerberg is going all-out to block a memoir by Facebook’s former director of global public policy,... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Roxane Gay Lists Her Favorite Books of 2024

The latest in nonfiction book news includes PEN America’s latest analysis of book bans, censorship posts to revisit by our ... Continue reading at Book Riot

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10 New Nonfiction Book Releases of March 2025

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The Women’s Prize Announces Its 2025 Nonfiction Longlist

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‘I won the Pulitzer Prize and I’m busking on a corner’: 3 top artists on the uncertain future of political cartooning

Barry Blitt, Jack Ohman, and Jen Sorensen discuss the promise and many perils of their chosen artform. Editorial cartoons and illustration are fairly niche topics—or so I once thought. On Jan. 3, cartoonist Ann Telnaes published Why I’m quitting the Washington Post on her Substack. It detailed... Continue reading at Fast Company

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‘No Americans putting on bad Belfast accents!’ How Disney drama Say Nothing brings the Troubles to life

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10 New Nonfiction Book Releases of November 2024

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Can John Green Make You Care About Tuberculosis?

With a forthcoming nonfiction book and an online army of Nerdfighters, the young-adult author aims to eliminate an entirely curable global scourge. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Cover Reveal of TRANS HISTORY: A GRAPHIC NOVEL by Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett

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Nonfiction Women Writers for DAYS!

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Yepoka Yeebo takes home 2024 Jhalak prize for writers of colour

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Social media bosses are ‘the largest dictators’, says Nobel peace prize winner

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The NYPD’s ‘unprofessional’ social media posts are under investigation

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