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- 'No Place to Hide' by Glenn Greenwald portrays Edward Snowden as a 'whistleblower in shining armor'Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who broke the Edward Snowden story, offers further details on his contacts with Snowden and the US government's surveillance system.
- Reader recommendation: The Monuments MenMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Clouds of GloryBestselling biographer Michael Korda examines the life of legendary general Robert E. Lee who, despite being the subject of many books, remains an enigma.
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- Is Hillary Clinton hinting at her future in memoir excerpt?The section of Clinton's memoir, which was released on Mother's Day, discusses her relationship with her own mother, Dorothy Howell Rodham, and may offer a rationale for a 2016 presidential run.
- 'Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day' movie gets a trailer'Alexander' stars Ed Oxenbould, Steve Carell, and Jennifer Garner.
- BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Tudor novels will include Damian Lewis, Mark RylanceThe BBC adaptation of Mantel's novels 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies' will reportedly air sometime next year.
- American RomanticWard Just's excellent novel about a foreign service officer posted to Indochina in the 1960s may be his finest work to date.
- Reader recommendation: The GoldfinchMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Graduation gifts: One is still making a difference in the life of a journalistOne writer is still encouraged by the handsome deluxe edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novels he received as a graduation present.
- Hachette Book Group says Amazon is deliberately delaying shipments of their titlesNew titles that Hachette says should be available are listed as taking as long as five weeks to be delivered to customers by Amazon. Amazon declined to comment.
- Hemingway biopic 'Papa' brings Hollywood back to Cuba'Papa' is reportedly the first full-length feature Hollywood movie to film in Cuba since 1959.
- New York Public Library cancels renovation plansIn a move that was called 'remarkable,' the NYPL decided against its planned revamp, which would have sent 1.5 million books to a storage facility in New Jersey.
- What are kids reading? Books like 'Hunger Games,' but classics, too.The reading habits of 9.8 million students in Grades 1 to 12 are detailed in the 鈥榃hat Kids Are Reading鈥 report by Renaissance Learning. The annual report tries to identify enjoyable books and encourage more reading.
- The Noble Hustle'Zone One' author Colson Whitehead explores the strange world of poker and the people who have built their lives around it.
- Walter Kirn's con man tale 'Blood Will Out' could come to TV'Blood Will Out' has been put in development as a limited series.
- Author provides a glimpse into a North Korean bookstoreWriter Jose Luis Peixoto's latest installment about his travels in North Korea include a description of a North Korean bookstore and its wares.
- BirdmenLawrence Goldstone tells the story of the decade when men took to the air.
- Queen Latifah will reportedly star as singer Bessie Smith in HBO filmQueen Latifah will play the blues singer in a movie titled 'Bessie' which will be based on the biography of the same name by Chris Albertson.
- Parent arrested after protesting Jodi Picoult novel being read in schoolsA New Hampshire parent was arrested when he overshot his allotted time during a debate over the assignment of Jodi Picoult's novel 'Nineteen Minutes' to ninth-grade readers.