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Chris Ballard – The Plunge

Chris Ballard The Plunge review and information book on Maverick Swimmers, An Unlikely Quest, and The Transformative Power of Cold Water. Viking will publish the book by Chris Ballard about the history of the pleasures of cold water swimming on July 30, 2026. On this page  you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Chris Ballard The Plunge reviews and information

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  • “Mesmerizing. Chris Ballard does a deep dive into one of the most controversial health, fitness, and athletic crazes of our time. I still loathe cold water, but I loved this book.” (Amy Grant, author)
  • “A Brrrillant book! Ballard artfully explores the culture, physiology, and utter beauty of cold water swimming, a journey of exploration, joy, and enduring friendships. So warm in the utter cold. I couldn’t put the book down!” Lynne Cox, author of Swimming to Antarctica)
  • “Before reading The Plunge, I’d have rather sawed off a leg than submerged myself in 30-degree waters. But Chris Ballard’s book is—like an icy plunge—inspiring and invigorating. It also happens to be engrossing, masterful and life-affirming, all the hallmarks of one of America’s best writers.” (Jeff Pearlman, author)

Chris Ballard The Plunge

The Plunge

Maverick Swimmers, An Unlikely Quest, and The Transformative Power of Cold Water

  • Author: Chris Ballard (United States)
  • Book type: on the pleasure of cold water swimming
  • Publisher: Viking
  • To be released: July 30, 2026
  • Length: 528 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: £ 22.00 / £ 9,99 / £ 14.99
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Blurb of the book by Chris Ballard on cold water swimming

A globe-spanning narrative adventure about how the euphoria of cold water can transform — and even extend — your life.

Lifelong athlete and Sports Illustrated writer Chris Ballard worried his days of exercise were numbered. Then he received a fateful text message about a trend taking hold around the world: submerging in freezing cold water.

It wasn’t only thrill seekers or wellness gurus extolling its power. Swimmers have long known that when paired with cold, their sport delivers extraordinary rewards; now, modern research has shown that just a few minutes in cold water can deliver remarkable benefits: heightened energy and focus, reduced inflammation, and relief from depression and anxiety.

In The Plunge, Ballard travels to laboratories and swims in waters around the world, from Portsmouth to the Pacific, tracing the roots of cold water swimming in ancient practices largely lost in the modern world.

He immerses himself in the growing tribe of cold-water junkies of all ages, shapes and nationalities, from pioneers like Lynne Cox to visionaries like Ram Barkai, whose audacious dream of getting ice swimming into the Olympics edges closer to reality.

And, from cold plunging to open water swimming to ice swimming, he tests his limits in this extreme sport, eventually becoming a US national champion, his body and mind transformed along the way.

Blending history, cutting-edge science, colourful characters, and propulsive narrative storytelling, it’s a rollicking, eye-opening adventure that reveals how a single act — stepping into cold water — can unlock resilience, connection, meaning and joy.

Chris Ballard is an American award-winning author and journalist who has written for The New York Times, National Geographic, and Sports Illustrated, where he was a Senior Writer for two decades. When he started writing The Plunge, he had no idea about the power of cold water. In 2024 he became the US national ice swimming champion in his age group for the 50m and 100m freestyle. In 2025 he competed at the 6th International Ice Swimming Association World Championships in Italy.

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Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan – Regime Change

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan Regime Change review and information book Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. Simon & Schuster will publish the Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan on June 23, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan Regime Change reviews and information

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  • “Riveting and richly textured…What the authors add is the vivid detail that makes these events feel actual. They wrest reality itself back from the distorted world of entertainment, illusion, fantasy and denial that Trump has generated around himself. It is this flood of provocation, atrocity, self-dealing and fabrication that makes Haberman and Swan’s counternarrative so vital.” (Fintan O’Toole, The New York Times)

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan Regime Change

Regime Change

Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

  • Authors: Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan (United States)
  • Book type: American politics
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • To be released: June 23, 2026
  • Length: 496 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 34.00 / $ 16.99 / € 32.99
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Blurb of the book on the imperial presidency of Donald Trump

A riveting, intimate, and revelatory account of the most radical and consequential presidency of our time.

From the two reporters who have covered him more closely than perhaps anyone else over the past decade comes this definitive portrait of Donald Trump in the White House. Regime Change covers the first year of Trump’s second presidency—a term liberated from every constraint that defined his first. The generals who once told him “no” are gone, and the lawyers who remain have learned to pick their battles. His administration has flouted court orders and he has claimed powers that Congress once checked. What remains is a President willing to take enormous risks that have upended global markets and toppled heads of state; an imperial President operating almost entirely on instinct alone.

Based on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented reporting from deep within the administration’s most closely guarded rooms, Regime Change takes the reader inside the Situation Room and into the secret Oval Office deliberations that have launched a new war in the Middle East and seen Trump seal the border, surge National Guard troops into cities, and send immigration agents into deadly clashes with protestors. Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan bring us behind the scenes of a presidency that has transformed the culture, turned the Justice Department into an agent of retribution against the President’s enemies and the office itself into a brazen vehicle for profit. They reveal a second term propelled by a historical irony that Trump himself has come to understand: that the indictments, the convictions, the assassination attempts, and four years of exile made him not weaker but far more powerful, more vengeful, and more willing to gamble than any President in modern history.

This is the story of how Trump has used that power, who has tried to stop him, and why nearly all of them have failed. It is also the story of something American journalists are more accustomed to chronicling in distant capitals than in their own: a President who has fundamentally altered the nature of the office he holds—and, with it, how the rest of the world understands American power. It is an account of Regime Change right here in America—a landmark real-time history of a modern presidency like no other.

The Dutch translation of Regime Change wil be published by Omniboek on Jyly 9, 2026.

Maggie Haberman was born born October 30, 1973 in New York City. She is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. A New York City native, Haberman worked at the New York Post, New York Daily News, and Politico, before joining the Times in 2015. She has covered six US presidential elections and several gubernatorial and New York City mayoral races. She was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for reporting on President Trump’s advisers and their connections to Russia. In 2021, she was part of a team that was a Pulitzer finalist for coverage of President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus. She has received the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Aldo Beckman Award, as well as the Newswomen’s Club of New York’s Front Page Award for Journalist of the Year. She is the author of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. She lives in New York City with her husband and their three children.

Jonathan Swan was born August 7, 1985 in Sydney, Australia. He is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. Originally from Sydney, Australia, he has reported on Donald Trump since 2015, covering all three of his campaigns and his first term in office. Previously at Axios and The Hill, he won an Emmy Award for his 2020 interview of then-President Trump and received the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Aldo Beckman Award. He began his career as a teenage copy boy at a Sydney newspaper and later covered federal politics in Australia’s capital for The Sydney Morning Herald. He became a US citizen in 2024 and lives in Virginia with his wife and two children, with a third on the way.

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Sophie Pinkham – De eik en de lariks

Sophie Pinkham De eik en de lariks recensie, review en informatie boek over hoe het woud Rusland heeft gevormd. Op 19 juni 2026 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Van Oorschot de Nederlandse vertaling van The Oak and the Larch, geschreven door Sophie Pinkham de Amerikaanse journalist en schrijfster. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Sophie Pinkham De eik en de lariks recensies en reviews

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  • “Opvallend origineel … een knappe manier om de Russische geschiedenis te vertellen vanuit een nieuw en onthullend perspectief.” (The Times)
  • “Een omvangrijke en vaak meeslepende studie naar de rol van de wildernis in de Russische verbeelding… Pinkham is op haar scherpst wanneer ze het Sovjettijdperk en de nasleep daarvan onder de loep neemt… Het boek bevat treffende natuurbeschrijvingen – zo is Pinkhams verslag over autodidactische wolvenonderzoekers, die in ongerepte afzondering nabij de Russisch-Finse grens leven, bijzonder beeldend.” (New York Times)
  • “Het verhaal van Rusland vertellen aan de hand van zijn bossen – van de op Enten lijkende *lesji* uit de middeleeuwse folklore tot de manier waarop de Oekraïense bossen verdedigingsbolwerken vormden tegen Poetins invasie – getuigt van een schitterende verbeeldingskracht; het prachtige boek van Sophie Pinkham zit dan ook boordevol inzichten die daarbij aansluiten.” (Mark Galeotti)
  • “Fascinerend… het boek voert een overtuigend pleidooi voor het bos als prisma om Rusland – inclusief het voormalige Sovjetgebied – en zijn volkeren te begrijpen.” (Guardian)

Sophie Pinkham De eik en de lariks

De eik en de lariks

Hoe het woud Rusland heeft gevormd

  • Auteur: Sophie Pinkham (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Russische geschiedenis
  • Origineel: The Oak and the Larch (2026)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Anneke Bok
  • Uitgever: Van Oorschot
  • Verschijnt: 19 juni 2026
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Afmetingen: 14,6 x 23,1 x 2,4 cm
  • Gewicht: 504 gram
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: € 27,99
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Flaptekst boek van Sophie Pinkham over hoe het woud Rusland heeft gevormd

De bossen van Rusland reiken van de Oostzee tot de Stille Oceaan en van het Noordpoolgebied tot de steppen van Centraal-Azië. Ze beslaan bijna een vijfde van alle beboste gebieden ter wereld. In De eik en de lariks onderzoekt journalist en literatuurwetenschapper Sophie Pinkham dit immense gebied, bewoond door voorchristelijke bosgeesten, mysterieuze Siberische heremieten, beren, wolven en allerhande volk dat tussen taaie Siberische lariksen en majestueuze eiken een schuilplaats vond vanwege een conflict met het regime.

Van de Mongoolse invasies tot de oorlog die vandaag in Oekraïne plaatsvindt: Pinkham zet het ondoordringbare en eindeloze woud in als lens om Ruslands lange geschiedenis van imperialistische oorlogen te duiden. Ook laat Pinkham zien hoezeer het de Russische cultuur heeft gevormd, waarbij ze rijkelijk put uit sprookjes en de grote literaire werken. De eik en de lariks is een wervelende geschiedenis van de rol die het bos heeft gespeeld in de Russische cultuur, geschiedenis en politiek.

Sophie Pinkham is hoogleraar aan Cornell University. Haar essays en artikelen verschenen onder meer in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Guardian en Harper’s. Eerder publiceerde ze Black Square. Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine (2016), een portret van Oekraïne waarin ze memoires, reportage en cultuurgeschiedenis combineert om de geschiedenis van het land te schetsen.

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Linda Robinson – Women in Power

Linda Robinson Women in Power review and information book about Fighting for Democracy in an Age of Authoritarianism. Columbia University Press will publish the book about Women in Power, written by Linda Robinscon, senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, on June 23, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Linda Robinson Women in Power reviews and information

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  • “A must-read for all who are concerned about the rise of authoritarianism and the vicious attacks on women’s leadership. By showcasing the experiences of women political leaders, Robinson debunks the stereotype that only men can lead in challenging times. Women political leaders, she demonstrates, have the winning formula for defending democracy—governing for all and advancing gender equality.” (Geeta Rao Rupta, former US ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues)
  • “Linda Robinson, an intrepid journalist and a trailblazer in her own right, profiles women from Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe who have demonstrated courage and dedication to democratic values. She highlights the factors that led to their success and leaves the reader convinced that it is women who can save democracy worldwide. This is a book for all men and women who want to better understand how female leaders make history.”  (Evelyn N. Farkas, executive director of the McCain Institute at Arizona State University)

Linda Robinson Women in Power

Women in Power

Fighting for Democracy in an Age of Authoritarianism

  • Author: Linda Robinson (United States)
  • Book type: women in politics
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • To be released: June 23, 2026
  • Length: 296 pages
  • Format: hard back / ebook
  • Prize: $ 26.95 / $ 25,99
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Blurb of the book by Linda Robinson on Women in Power

Around the world, antidemocratic forces are taking aim at women leaders. Misogynistic authoritarianism has entered the mainstream, seeking to reverse decades of progress. Weaponized digital technologies have unleashed sexualized smears and violent threats. There is a deep connection between attacks on women and attacks on democracy—and female leaders can show us how to fight back.

Linda Robinson—an award-winning journalist and foreign policy expert—tells the powerful stories of the women on the frontlines of the battle between democracy and authoritarianism. Despite age-old obstacles and virulent new dangers, these remarkable leaders have strengthened their countries, expanded gender equality, and promoted policies that benefit all. Tsai Ing-wen crafted a strategy to defend Taiwan from Chinese aggression while advancing social reforms. Estonia’s Kaja Kallas and Moldova’s Maia Sandu fought Russian hybrid warfare by pursuing European integration. Balkan leaders Vjosa Osmani and Nataša Pirc Musar bolstered their democracies against Serbian and Russian destabilization. Mia Amor Mottley of Barbados became a global champion for climate justice, rising above sexist attacks to achieve international financial reforms. Robinson distills the hard-won lessons of these and other recent leaders—including New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern, Finland’s Sanna Marin, and Sigrid Kaag of the Netherlands—providing a roadmap for countries facing existential threats. Timely and vivid, this book spotlights women’s leadership amid the global crisis of democracy.

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Gabriel Sherman – Vreugdevuur van de Murdochs

Gabriel Sherman Vreugdevuur van de Murdochs recensie en review boek over hoe de epische strijd om de troon van de laatste grote mediadynastie een familie verscheurde – en de wereld. Op 3 februari 2026 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Luitingh-Sijthoff, de Nederlandse vertaling van Bonfire of the Murdochs, het boek geschreven door Gabriel Sherman, de Amerikaanse journalist. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Gabriel Sherman Vreugdevuur van de Murdochs recensies en reviews

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  • A real-life Succession drama, in all its inglorious tawdriness. . . . It’s a story with as much moral relevance as King Lear … Almost certainly guaranteed not to win Rupert Murdoch any new admirers.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “Sherman delves in this juicy melodrama into the caustic, decades-long family feud over the inheritance of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire … The saga reads like a real-life Succession, a comparison even the family can see, as evidenced by their paranoia about possible leaks to the show’s writers. Readers will be riveted by this merciless battle for dynastic dominance.” (Publishers Weekly)

Gabriel Sherman Vreugdevuur van de Murdochs

Vreugdevuur van de Murdochs

Hoe de epische strijd om de troon van de laatste grote mediadynastie een familie verscheurde – en de wereld

  • Auteur: Gabriel Sherman (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: familiegeschiedenis, journalistiek boek
  • Origineel: Bonfire of the Murdochs (2026)
  • Uitgever: Luitingh-Sijthoff
  • Verschijnt: 3 februari 2026
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Afmetingen: 14,1 x 21,6 x 2,6 cm
  • Gewicht: 376 gram
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 22,99 / € 13,99
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Flaptekst boek van Gabriel Sherman over de machtsstrijd binnen de familie Murdoch

Het waargebeurde verhaal van het epische gevecht om de troon van de Murdoch-mediadynastie is nog verbijsterender dat de hitserie Succession die erop is gebaseerd.

Vreugdevuur van de Murdochs vertelt het waargebeurde verhaal van de epische familiestrijd binnen het media-imperium van Rupert Murdoch, en hun ongekende politieke invloed. Het echte verhaal achter de hitserie Succession.

Weinig burgers hebben een grotere rol gespeeld in de wereldpolitiek dan Rupert Murdoch. Zijn zender Fox News is één geworden met president Trump en zijn achterban, waardoor Murdoch een ongeëvenaarde invloed heeft op ’s werelds machtigste democratie – met gevolgen die tot in Nederland merkbaar zijn.

Om te besluiten wie zijn media-imperium van kranten, tv-zenders en uitgeverijen kon overnemen, dacht Murdoch dat het tegen elkaar uitspelen van zijn kinderen de meest capabele erfgenaam zou opleveren. Die strategie zou uiteindelijk zijn vermogende familie uiteenrijten en een miljardenoorlog ontketenen in een shakespeareaanse troonopvolgingsstrijd vol verraad, rechtszaken en wraak.

Gabriel Sherman is op 16 juni 1979 geboren in Newton, Massachusetts in de Verenigde Staten. Hij volgt de familie Murdoch al sinds 2008. Hij is de auteur van de New York Times-bestseller ‘The Loudest Voice in the Room’ over de overleden CEO van Fox News, Roger Ailes. Hij schreef het scenario voor de tweemaal voor een Oscar genomineerde film ‘The Apprentice’ en heeft verslag gedaan van de nationale politiek voor New York Magazine en Vanity Fair. Hij woont in Londen met zijn vrouw, zoon, dochter, hond en kat.

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Kenneth R. Rosen – Polar War

Kenneth R. Rosen Polar War review and information book about Submarines, spies, and the struggle for power in a melting Arctic. Simon & Schuster Profile Books Random House will publish the Kenneth R. Rosen book on January 6, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Kenneth R. Rosen Polar War reviews

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  • “At once both immensely fascinating and alarming, Rosen’s words culminate in a robust depiction of the Arctic climate, physically and politically. Control of the Arctic has roots in the climate crisis, making this extensively researched and accessible exposé ideal for readers interested in science and politics alike.” (Booklist)
  • “Lyrical and deeply reported…Two years of travel to the Arctic regions and hundreds of interviews bolster Rosen’s hypnotic descriptions of the frigid crossroads where nations vie for domination and control.” (Publisher’s Weekly)

Kenneth R. Rosen Polar War

Polar War

Submarines, Spies, and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic

  • Author: Kenneth R. Rosen (Verenigde Staten)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Random House
  • To be released: May 5, 2026
  • Length: 224 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 29.00
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Blurb of the book by Kenneth R. Rosen on the Arctic

A gripping blend of travelogue and frontline reporting that reveals how climate change, military ambition, and economic opportunity are transforming the Arctic into the epicenter of a new cold war, where a struggle for dominance between the planet’s great powers heralds the next global conflict.

Russian spies. Nuclear submarines. Sabotaged pipelines. Undersea communications severed in the dark of night. The fastest-warming place on earth—where apartment buildings, hospitals, and homes crumble daily as permafrost melts and villages get washed away by rising seas—the Arctic stands at the crossroads of geopolitical ambition and environmental catastrophe. As climate change thaws the northern latitudes, opening once ice-bound shipping lanes and access to natural resources, the world’s military powers are rushing to stake their claims in this increasingly strategic region. We’ve entered a new cold war—and every day it grows hotter.

In Polar War, Kenneth R. Rosen takes readers on an extraordinary journey across the changing face of the far north. Through intimate portraits of scientists, soldiers, and Indigenous community leaders representing the interests of twenty-one countries across four continents, he witnesses firsthand how rising temperatures and growing tensions are reshaping life above and below the Arctic Circle. He finds himself on the trail of Navy SEALs training for arctic warfare, embarks on Coast Guard patrols monitoring Russian incursions, participates in close-quarter-combat training aboard foreign icebreakers in the Arctic sea ice, and visits remote research stations where international cooperation is giving way to espionage and the search for long-frozen biological weapons.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews and three years of reporting from the frontlines of climate change and great power competition, Rosen blends incisive analysis with the vivid immediacy of a travelogue. His deeply researched and personal accounts capture the diverse landscapes, people, and conflicted interests that define this complex northern region. The result is both an elegy for a vanishing landscape and an urgent warning about how the race for Arctic dominance could spark the next global conflict.

Kenneth R. Rosen was born in 1990 in New York City. He is the recipient of a Kurt Schork Award, a Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, and was a two-time finalist for the Livingston Award for his work in Syria and Iraq. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and WIRED. He divides his time between Western Massachusetts and Northern Italy with his wife and their three children.

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Robert Plunket – Love Junkie

Robert Plunket Love Junkie review and information about the American novel from 1992. Penguin Modern Classics will publish the reissue of the Robert Plunket novel, on March 5, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Robert Plunket Love Junkie reviews and information

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  • “One of the tragicomic classics of the AIDS era. In a groovier universe, Plunket would have gone on publishing novels in addition to his journalism… As it is, the strength and singularity of the two books he did publish demand an accounting of their place in the American fiction of the 1980s and ’90s” (The Nation)
  • “Love Junkie is a comedy of manners with a time bomb ticking behind the curtain.” (The New York Times)
  • “Hilarious, very sad, and constantly teetering on the brink of being genuinely offensive. But it isn’t offensive!” (Lauren Oyler)

Robert Plunket Love Junkie

Love Junkie

  • Author: Robert Plunket (United States)
  • Book type: American 1992 novel
  • Publisher reissue: Penguin Modern Classics
  • To be released: March 5, 2026
  • Length: 272 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 10.99 / £ 7.99
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Blurb of the Robert Plunket novel

Mimi Smithers, forty-something housewife and aesthete manquée, has moved with her Union Carbide husband from Tehran to Westchester. Life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Joel, a dazzlingly handsome porn star. Soon she tumbles down the rabbit hole of Manhattan and Fire Island society, helping glamorous Joel with his lucrative mail order business (signed photographs, used underwear, ‘verbal abuse audiotapes’), and her real dreams and adventures begin.

A Madame Bovary for the heyday of gay New York, Love Junkie, first published in 1992, is reissued here in its full and naked glory.

Robert Plunket was born in 1945 in Greenville, Texas, but raised in Robert Plunket Love Junkie 1992 novel first editionHavana and Mexico City. After college he moved to New York and became Mr Chatterbox, the gossip columnist for Sarasota Magazine. He has published two novels, My Search for Warren Harding (1983) and Love Junkie (1992). He is retired and lives in a trailer park in Englewood, Florida, where he enjoys collecting old quilts and raising succulents from scratch.

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New Journalism boeken en schrijvers

New Journalism boeken en schrijvers. Wat wordt bedoeld met New Journalism en wat zijn de beste boeken in het genre? Welke auteurs, schrijfsters en schrijvers zijn bekend geworden door de New Journalism boeken? Wanneer en waar is deze stroming in de literatuur en journalistiek ontstaan?

New Journalism boeken en schrijvers

New Journalism is een literaire stroming die is ontstaan aan het einde van de jaren zestig en begin van de jaren zeventig van de twintigste eeuw. Het is een vorm van journalistiek schrijven waarin gekozen wordt voor een meer literaire toon en aanpak. Auteurs die zich van deze literaire journalistieke vorm bedienden pretendeerden dan ook om voorbij de feiten op zoek te gaan naar een diepere waarheid en de verbeelding een belangrijke, soms zelfs dominante rol te geven. Zelf noemden de auteurs hun boeken vaak non-fictie romans.

De Amerikaanse schrijver Tom Wolfe wordt algemeen beschouwd als de grondlegger en theoreticus van het genre. Hij legde in essays vast waaraan een goed New Journalism boek aan moet voldoen. Het boek bevat volledige dialogen, nauwkeurige plaatsaanduidingen, beschrijft gebeurtenissen vanuit het perspectief van unieke personen en bevat persoonlijke details.

Wat zijn de bekendste New Journalism boeken?

Het genre was internationaal vooral bekend door Amerikaanse auteurs. Naast de bedenker en naamgever Tom Wolfe, hebben onder andere Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson en John Hersey furore gemaakt met boeken in het genre. In de loop van de jaren tachtig van de vorige eeuw nam de aandacht voor New Journalism af alhoewel er tot op de dag van vandaag boeken en lange artikelen verschijnen die duidelijke kenmerken van het genre vertonen.

Truman Capote In Cold Blood recensie en reviewTruman Capote – In Cold Blood

A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences

true crime non-fictie roman uit 1966
Nederlandse vertaling: In koelen bloede
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote’s comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved…lees verder >

Norman Mailer Miami and the Siege of Chicago Book from 1968 First EditionNorman Mailer – Miami and the Siege of Chicago

An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 

non-fictie roman uit 1968
Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The Republican Party meets in Miami and picks Richard Nixon as its candidate, to little fanfare. But when the Democrats back Lyndon Johnson’s ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey, the city of Chicago erupts. Antiwar protesters fill the streets and the police run amok, beating and arresting demonstrators and delegates alike, all broadcast on live television, and captured in these pages by one of America’s fiercest intellects.

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Afbeelding bovenzijde: nNwsroom radio station CBC in Montreal, Canada (Public domain)

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Neil Shea – Frostlines

Neil Shea Frostlines review and information travel stories and book about an epic exploration of the transforming Arctic. Picador will publish the Neil Shea debut, on February 12, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Neil Shea Frostlines reviews

  • “Magnificent and moving . . . This stunning book—part travelogue, part history, part popular science—will give you a new appreciation for a place, and its people, and how they together are confronting the upheaval of the modern world.” (Steve Brusatte, University of Edinburgh paleontologist)
  • “From wolves and whales to weaponized borders, Neil Shea cinches a singular storyline across the Arctic cap of our rapidly changing planet, bearing witness to loss and conflict while holding tight to wonder and awe.” (Meera Subramanian, author of A River Runs Again)

Neil Shea Frostlines

Frostlines

An Epic Exploration of the Transforming Arctic

  • Author: Neal Shea (United States)
  • Book type: Arctic travel stories
  • Publisher: Picador
  • To be released: February 12, 2026
  • Length: 240 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the Neal Shea travel book about the Arctic

The Arctic was once a place seemingly frozen in time. Now, while the old cold world can still be glimpsed in the herds of caribou, the hidden lives of wolves, and the hunting skill of an Inupiat elder, there is a new Arctic emerging.

National Geographic writer Neil Shea begins his journey with the wolves of Canada’s Ellesmere Island, and travels among the Indigenous Netsilingmiut and Tlicho peoples of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. In the Barren Lands, perched on an esker, he watches bears, or Big Men. In Alaska he tracks the patterns of caribou, now shifting after thousands of years of predictability, and in the European Arctic he explores the new Cold War that is rising between Russia, China, Europe, and the United States over who controls the pole, and who will reap its riches as the ice melts.

Frostlines is an expansive yet intimate revelation of the Arctic during a time of crisis, and a journey along the threshold of this stunning and sometimes frightening world. What Shea finds is not one Arctic but many – all linked by shattering cold, seasons of darkness, and pure, sparkling light.

Neil Shea is an American travel journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. He has written more than fifteen years for National Geographic, reporting around the world at the intersections of conflict, climate science and cultural change. He’s a co-creator of the Peabody Award-nominated podcast ‘Unfinished: Deep South’, and he also writes for film and television, scripted and documentary. Frostlines is his first book.

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Tarpley Hitt – Barbieland

Tarpley Hitt Barbieland review and information of the book with the Unauthorized History of Barbie. Atria Books will publish the book by Tarpley Hitt about Barbie, on December 2, 2025. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Tarpley Hitt Barbieland review

  • “A must-read take on Barbie’s backstory that gives us all the good weirdness we need. Barbieland marks the arrival of a brilliant new voice on the American nonfiction scene.” (John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead)
  • “Barbie’s story embodies all the contradictions of women’s lives—and the perils of our corporate and financial order. Barbieland is eye-opening, provocative, surprising, and always, always fun.” (Helaine Olen, bestselling author of Pound Foolish)
  • “More than the story of a toy, Barbieland is the story of the twentieth century. As fun as it is informative—you’ll never look at a doll the same way.” (Malcolm Harris, author of Palo Alto)
  • “Toy mania. Journalist Hitt makes a lively book debut with a dive into the creation, marketing, and meaning of the iconic Barbie doll.” (Kirkus)

Tarpley Hitt Barbieland

Barbieland

Unauthorized History of Barbie

  • Author: Tarpley Hitt (United States)
  • Book type: cultural history of Barbie
  • Publisher: Atria Books
  • To be released: December 2, 2025
  • Length: 352 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 30.00 / $ 14.99 / $25.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the book about Barbie by Tarpley Hitt

The explosive true story of Barbie and what Mattel has done to keep her on top.

In June of 1952, German publishing tycoon Axel Springer was sending a new paper to print: a four-page broadsheet that almost ready, save for a narrow blank on the second page. With minutes to spare, Springer commissioned a one-block cartoon of a petite blonde with a predilection for rich men. That blonde was named “Lilli.” But in a span of seven short years, she would be reborn in plastic, across an ocean, and under a different name: Barbara Millicent Roberts.

If Barbie began as a blank space, the world has spent seven decades filling it in. No doll has elicited more adoration from fans, more hatred from detractors, and more eyerolls from the indifferent. To boosters, she is the ultimate symbol of unabashed girlhood, an 11.5-inch figurine who shot to the moon before American women could get credit cards, an evolving illustration that, per one tagline, “we girls can do anything.” To critics, she represents an inane vision of femininity that was going out of style just years after she was “born”—an homage to impossible body proportions, an emblem of Eurocentric beauty standards, a bimbo built on an empire of polyethylene. For everyone else, Barbie is to dolls what Xerox is to copy machines, or Kleenex is to tissues. She is, for better or for worse, an American icon.

Barbie’s conquest over the toy market did not happen by accident. It is the byproduct of meticulous marketing, occasional backstabbing, squadrons of designers with strong opinions on coral lip shades, and covert corporate maneuvers—many of which replicate, in miniature, the economic trajectory of the country Barbie seems to represent.

Tarpley Hitt is a journalist in New York, New York, where she is an editor at and contributor to The Drift magazine. She has previously reported on culture and money for The Daily Beast and Gawker, and her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Bookforum, The Paris Review, The Guardian, Air Mail, Deseret Magazine, and Miami New Times.

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