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Like last year, the sidewalks around San Diego's convention center are empty and no one is lined up at the famed Hall H.

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Comic-Con Is Online Only Again This Year. On The Bright Side, No Lines!

3:17pm July 23, 2021

by Petra Mayer

No costumed crowds are thronging the streets of San Diego this weekend: For the second year in a row, Comic-Con is online only. But organizers are hoping for a small in-person show in November.

Author Sarah Ramey's first book was expected to be among 2020's bestsellers. But it was released the same week as the lockdown and got lost amid news of a global catastrophe.

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When Your Book Publishes In A Pandemic — Authors Talk About Terrible Timing

5:44am July 23, 2021

by Neda Ulaby

A league of unfortunate writers had their books come out in the height of the coronavirus crisis — there are even several online support groups for authors who published mid-pandemic.

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The Book 'Glory Days' Describes The 90 Days In 1984 That Shaped How We Watch Sports

4:58pm July 22, 2021

Sports writer Jon Wertheim's new book, Glory Days, describes the story of the summer he says changed everything. 90 days in 1984 shaped how we watch sports today.

An Analysis Of New Books About Donald Trump's Presidency

6:14am July 22, 2021

Several books about the Trump administration's final year, some including interviews with the ex-president, are arriving in bookstores. How do they change what we know about the Trump White House?

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Fascinating, Mysterious 'Intimacies' Doesn't Let Readers Get Close Enough

5:00am July 22, 2021

by Leland Cheuk

Katie Kitamura's new novel follows an unnamed woman working as a translator at The Hague who works with war criminals — but can readers really know a narrator who remains resolutely unknown?

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Love Is A losing Game And Choice Is A Curse In 'The Paper Palace'

5:07pm July 21, 2021

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Miranda Cowley Heller about her first novel, The Paper Palace, which is set in late summer on Cape Cod — and is all about desire.

A member of the protest group Hot Mess holds up a sign of Jeffrey Epstein in front of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City in July 2019. Epstein died by asphyxiation in his cell a month later.

Everyone Heard About Jeffrey Epstein's Enablers. Few Listened To His Victims

12:58pm July 21, 2021

by Dave Davies

After Palm Beach sex offender Jeffrey Epstein received a lenient sentence for his crimes, journalist Julie K. Brown identified 80 women who had survived his abuse. Her book is Perversion of Justice.

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Notes from the Burning Age, by Claire North

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In 'Notes From The Burning Age,' We're The Ones On Fire

5:00am July 21, 2021

by Jason Sheehan

Claire North's new Notes from the Burning Age is set far in the future — but the titular burning age is our own, an age of waste and exploitation from which only fragments of knowledge remain.

Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency, Michael Wolff

Michael Wolff's Third Strike At Trump White House Has Hits And Misses

4:40pm July 20, 2021

by Ron Elving

The author has gifts as a writer: a novelistic eye for scene and detail, an ear for dramatic dialogue. His story keeps moving, free of constraints common to courtroom lawyers or newspaper reporters.

Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley

Echoes Across Centuries Are Reminders That The Next Quarantine Is A Matter Of When

8:31am July 20, 2021

by Annalisa Quinn

There's something that feels impossible about leaving behind the place in which we slunk our way through the last year plus. Until Proven Safe takes us to the places others lingered through time.