Zelensky: A Biography; Putin: His Life and Times reviews

Striking biographies by Serhii Rudenko and Philip Short pit Ukraine’s comic actor turned wartime hero against Russia’s pragmatic, inscrutable insider (from ‘The Guardian’):

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/29/zelensky-a-biography-serhii-rudenko-putin-his-life-and-times-philip-short-reviews-biographies-ukraine-war?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

The 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years

Four writers and one bookseller gathered over Zoom to make a list devoted to fiction in which the city is more than mere setting. (from nytimes.com):

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/22/t-magazine/new-york-city-novels-books.html?referringSource=articleShare

Michael Rosen marks Anne Frank anniversary with new poem

Seventy-five years after Diary of a Young Girl’s publication, Sonnet for Anne Frank reflects on the ‘awful paradox’ of the journal’s bright spirit and her fate (in ‘The Guardian’):

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/25/michael-rosen-marks-anne-frank-anniversary-with-new-poem?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

One Elite High School’s Struggle Over Admissions. A Podcast.

A fierce debate about the criteria for enrolling students at Lowell, in California, has echoes of the soul-searching happening across the U.S. education system. (from nytimes.com):

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/podcasts/the-daily/admissions-lowell-high-school-lottery-merit-system.html?referringSource=articleShare

Boston Globe—Horn Book Award Winners Revealed

Jason Reynolds and Sabaa Tahir are among the winners of the prizes for children’s and young adult literature. 

https://apple.news/AfBAszdbIQb2a6Hh9_qS5YA

 

A video. A conversation with the new editor of ‘The New York Times’ Joseph Kahn.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ibRnawBs7J8&feature=share

 

A very good conversation with the authors. On C-Span’s ‘Book TV’:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?518382-1/take-space-unprecedented-aoc