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JURE: Books I’ve set my eyes on this year
23 Jan 2026 20:55 GMT
… ’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
I’ve never read this book, but I … for justice. Rick Riordan, the author of the Percy Jackson and … writing his own novel about a second-rate author called Dermot Trellis … -Two-Birds is a novel within a novel with a mix of …
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Lit Hub’s 43 Favorite Books of 2025
02 Dec 2025 19:23 GMT
… genocide of Palestinians—the author of the novel American War (2017) situates … smart! –McKayla Coyle, Publishing Coordinator
The funniest book with such a high … blurbs from the likes of Umberto Eco and Gabriel García Márquez.
Quino …
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Nothing Better Than a Whole Lot of Books: In Praise of Bibliomania
24 Nov 2025 10:47 GMT
… by a 22-year-old Umberto Eco, this copy of Aristotle joining … Name of the Rose, that novel directly inspired by his Aristotle … author looking at the generous royalties stipulated for e-books in many publishing …
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Buy Books And Never Read Them? There's A Japanese Term For That.
31 Oct 2025 11:42 GMT
… common experience for bookworms: You buy a new novel or nonfiction … that the term appeared in published writing around 1880 “with … by Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco. He famously kept a … eventually getting around to that novel or history tome that …
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An intellectual farce: Rapture of the Deep, by Robert Irwin, reviewed
22 Jan 2026 12:10 GMT
… Dan Brown, or better still Umberto Eco, would surely have had to … career as a prolific freelance author. He twin-tracked scholarly endeavours … say the same about this book.
Rapture of the Deep … you seek enlightenment, Irwin’s novels suggest, flee from self- …
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Pynchon’s projections: Elliott Bay Book Company’s midnight book release
24 Oct 2025 23:53 GMT
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Recently, publishers have been promoting more literary novels with midnight … don’t require the author’s presence—especially for … Brecht, the philosophies of Umberto Eco, and the Vietnam War, … questions. In his later books, particularly “Vineland” and …
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“Pasaulietė”: Deimantė Rudžinskaitė and the Jehovah’s Witnesses. 3. Weaponizing a Book
17 Oct 2025 01:57 GMT
… Deimantė Rudžinskaitė promoting her book. From Facebook. Deimantė … However, confirming Umberto Eco’s distinction between the author’s motivations … of her book suggests otherwise. Her publisher promoted Rudžinskaitė … was going to get published in a lot of …
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R.F. Kuang ends world book tour on the home front in Somerville
09 Oct 2025 00:54 GMT
… 30, hosted by Narrative Bookshop. The author’s husband, Bennet Eckert- … include books like “The Name of the Rose” by Umberto Eco, the … as they begin the novel espousing the supremacy of … about her inspirations for the novel, Kuang attributed “Oppenheimer” as …
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Long Overdue: Books about Libraries and Librarians
02 Sep 2025 18:40 GMT
… character, debut author Tessa Calloway, is on a nationwide book tour that … about a woman writing a novel with the help of a … Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
I completely remember when I … . I’ll be an author with a book called All This Could …
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A picture of a professor’s library is a tableau of ‘decor and delight’ and a tribute to a fading era
17 Jan 2026 11:58 GMT
… books. There are books on the tables, books stacked on mahogany ladders, and books … years to authors including Umberto Eco and buildings in Italy … library of a prominent author from another country.)
The … 20th-century poets and novelists sat on a shelf …