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LeVar Burton Calls Out Moms for Liberty at National Book Awards: ‘Books Are Under Attack’
LeVar Burton called out the conservative organization Moms for Liberty in his opening remarks at the 74th National Book Awards & Benefit Dinner on Wednesday in New York City. “Before we get going, are there any Moms for Liberty in the house? Moms for Liberty? No? Good. Then hands will not need to be thrown…
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Adam Mansbach Delivers Impassioned Reading at Cat in the Cream
Editor’s note: this piece contains mentions of suicide. On Monday at the Cat in the Cream, author Adam Mansbach delivered an immersive reading of his book I Had a Brother Once with musical accompaniment led by his nephew, double-degree second-year Max Kassoy. Mansbach’s memoir-poem depicts his struggle with grief and search for ritual in the…
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10th annual Dhahan Prize for Punjabi Literature winner announced
Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article content Deepti Bubuta has been named the first female winner of the $25,000 Dhahan Prize for Punjabi Literature during a ceremony in Surrey on Nov. 16. “In Punjabi arts and…
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How ‘Fahrenheit 451’ inspires BookPeople of Moscow store to protect books and ideas
Local, independent bookstores have never been more important. With fair access to literature under political attack, bookstores are a bulwark against censorship and an asset to the communities they serve. Each week we profile an independent bookstore, discovering what makes each one special and getting their expert book recommendations. This week, we’re featuring BookPeople of…
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Tolstoy, Sendak picture book among hundreds banned from Florida schools
Hundreds of books, including a classic by Leo Tolstoy and a storybook by beloved children’s author Maurice Sendak, have been pulled from Florida school libraries this fall as administrators continue to scrutinize collections for works they fear violate new state laws. Seminole County Public Schools has removed more than 80 books, including the National Book…
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AS Byatt: a life defined by literature
It was always a joy to receive an email from the Booker prizewinning novelist AS Byatt. It might range from Nietzsche to newts to the weather in northern France (where she had a house) to the splitting migraine she’d had since Tuesday and why some writer was completely misguided about something or other. But no,…
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CS Richardson weaves art history with memory in the Giller Prize-finalist novel All the Colour in the World
C.S. Richardson is a Canadian author and book designer. (Curtis Lantinga) The Next Chapter12:17Sometimes judge a book by its cover Featured VideoAward-winning designer C.S. Richardson has been creating book covers for decades — but when it comes to his own work, it’s a different story. The Giller Prize-shortlisted author talks about inspiration and creating his…
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How art and memory weave together in the novel All the Colour in the World
C.S. Richardson is a Canadian author and book designer. (Curtis Lantinga) The Next Chapter12:17Sometimes judge a book by its cover Featured VideoAward-winning designer C.S. Richardson has been creating book covers for decades — but when it comes to his own work, it’s a different story. The Giller Prize-shortlisted author talks about inspiration and creating his…
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The Next Chapter columnist discusses books by Jamaica Kincaid and Zalika Reid-Benta
The Next Chapter columnist Donna Bailey Nurse, a Toronto-based writer and literary critic is a longtime champion of Black women writers. She stopped by The Next Chapter to recommend two novels that compliment each other, one older and one recent: Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother and Zalika Reid-Benta’s River Mumma. “The reason that I’m thinking…
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Free Expression Friday: Villanova Students Perform Banned Books
“Who Bans Books in the U.S. — And What Are They So Afraid Of?” This was the title of a performance and the question it explored a few weeks ago, when students in Villanova Communications Professor Heidi Rose’s Performance of Literature class gathered to bring banned books to life. Occurring on October 30 and November…