http://www.lovethebook.com/ The latest from the lovethebook.com rss feeds: book news, book notes and book awards. "The unease I felt about writing it was dissipated when I realised the response to the book but I wish the book had never had to be written", was poet Dannie Abse's response after winning the <a href=Awa... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=91 Wednesday, July 02, 2008 "The leading figure in Canadian literature and one of the most outstanding voices of contemporary fiction", Margaret Atwood has been awarded the 2008 <a href=Awards.aspx?bookaward=Prince+of+Asturias+... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=90 Saturday, June 28, 2008 It's the old American double standard, you know, say one thing, do something different. And, of course, the country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard. This country was founded ... http://www.lovethebook.com/index.aspx?Perm=113 Tuesday, June 24, 2008 What is in store for our planet and our lives as global temperatures rise degree by Celsius degree, up to six degrees of global warming by the year 2100? Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet answer... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=89 Thursday, June 19, 2008 The best thing about radio is that people were born without earlids. You can't close your ears to it. Called the man "who moved sound recording into the realm of the arts," by photographer Edward Steichen, "the King of Sound" by... http://www.lovethebook.com/index.aspx?Perm=112 Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Are there no consequences for committing a crime of colossal proportions? As a Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney, Vincent Bugliosi successfully prosecuted 105 of 106 ... http://www.lovethebook.com/index.aspx?Perm=111 Monday, June 16, 2008 "A magnificent achievement for a writer writing in a third language," was the opinion of the judges. "Its originality, its power, its lyricism, as well as its humane appeal all mark De Niro's Game as the ... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=88 Friday, June 13, 2008 British author Rose Tremain captured the 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction last week for her 10th novel, <a href=default.aspx?ai=070117... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=87 Monday, June 09, 2008 Called "a new-generation populist who instinctively understands that the only real questions are 'Who's getting screwed'" by Molly Ivins and a "populist rabble rouser" with a "take no-prisoners mind-set" by the ... http://www.lovethebook.com/index.aspx?Perm=110 Wednesday, June 04, 2008 Derek Landy is the 2008 winner of the Red House Children's Book Award, a UK children's book award that is chosen exclusively by c... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=86 Monday, June 02, 2008 Pat Tillman left his professional football career and a multimillion-dollar contract with the Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the United States Army following the September 11 attacks. He was the armed forces' most famous soldier. On April 22, 2004... http://www.lovethebook.com/index.aspx?Perm=109 Wednesday, May 28, 2008 It was impossible even to tell her...that I loved her because to have done so would have been to say: 'You're dying.' The Guardian has printed an extended excerpt from David Rieff's memoir, <a href=default.aspx?ai=0743299469... http://www.lovethebook.com/index.aspx?Perm=108 Sunday, May 25, 2008 "It is the spirit of Glasgow distilled into 400 pages," wrote one critic about Swing Hammer Swing!, the book which took 30 years for Scottish writer Jeff Tor... http://www.lovethebook.com/index.aspx?Perm=107 Sunday, May 18, 2008 Philippe Sands, Professor of International Law at University College London, has testified before the House Judiciary Sub-Committee about the findings in his new book, <a href=default.aspx?ai=02306039... http://www.lovethebook.com/index.aspx?Perm=106 Wednesday, May 14, 2008 The Royal Society of Literature has announced that Graham Robb has won the 2008 Ondaatje Prize for his book <a href=default.aspx?ai=0393059731 styl... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=85 Monday, May 05, 2008 Human rights campaigner and lawyer, Raja Shehadeh, has won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing for his book Palestin... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=84 Friday, May 02, 2008 Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945, the catalog for the internationally acclaimed exhibition curated Matthew S. Witkovsky, has been awarde... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=83 Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Following Wednesday's Democratic debate in Pennsylvania, many pundits have commentated that the media has finally gotten tough with Barack Obama. They decribe how the media is now less focused on attacking Hillary Clinton and, at last, closely scruti... http://www.lovethebook.com/index.aspx?Perm=105 Saturday, April 19, 2008 "After seven years of incompetence in Washington, D.C., I think the country is ready to look back at the type of leadership we had in someone like Roosevelt," Jean Edward Smith said on learning tha... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=82 Saturday, April 12, 2008 The Guardian critic Michael Billington has won this year's Theatre Book Prize for The State of the N... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=81 Thursday, April 03, 2008