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How Neev Literature Festival’s celebration of children’s books has become its own success story
2023 Neev Literature Festival. | Screenshots via Instagram Bellandur, known infamously for its frothing lake is also home to Neev Academy – a place largely responsible for the sudden rise in interest in Indian children’s literature. Over the past seven years, Neev Academy has been silently championing Indian children’s literature through the two-day Neev Literature…
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Jeanette Winterson Has No Idea What Happens Next
The New Yorker Interview Jeanette Winterson Has No Idea What Happens Next The author and former enfant terrible on life after death, breaking the rules, and forging a self through fiction. By Katy Waldman October 29, 2023 Photograph by Kate Peters / Guardian / eyevine / Redux Save this storySave this story Save this storySave…
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Medcalf: Here’s why we must confront book-banning efforts in Minnesota and elsewhere
Long before Dionne Sims opened Black Garnet Books on University Avenue in St. Paul, she dreamed of a bookstore that would reflect her identity. “I think personally it’s important to me because I never had anything like this growing up,” Sims said. “It was a struggle to find children’s books where the characters looked like…
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Get kids reading books
The 21st century is the proverbial best and worst of times for parenting. In the best category, consider books. When our nation was founded, they cost more than an average laborer’s weekly wages. Most families only owned one: the Bible. As for free public libraries, they didn’t yet exist. Although Ben Franklin famously founded our…
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Why literature matters
First Ladies Eliza Reid of Iceland and Dr. Jenni Haukio of Finland, both authors, along with bestselling English writer and illustrator Neil Gaiman acting as moderator, engaged us in rousing conversations a few weeks back on how reading and literature rest in the heart of Nordic societies. The seventh floor of the New York Public…
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Harvest Book Fair: Stonehouse Publishing and Paper Birch Books
Edmonton’s artistic and literary community came together on October 14 to 15 at Harvest Book Fair, organized by Hungry Zine. The event showcased local bookstores, publishers, and art and community organizations. I was most intrigued by the books, and I got to interact with representatives from Stonehouse Publishing and Paper Birch Books. The fair provided…
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How a Black literary critic learned to love Black horror
Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Boris Kachka, the books editor at the Los Angeles Times, and as Halloween and Día de Muertos creep ever closer, I’m thinking about the simple pleasures of a good jump scare. One of the clearest trends of the last 25 years has been…
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All five A Song of Ice and Fire books, ranked worst to best
George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series is, in my opinion, the best fantasy book series since J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. That comparison isn’t a coincidence; Martin has talked often about how his series is in conversation with The Lord of the Rings. He wanted more granular details about Middle-earth, once…
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Two Books for a Mental Vacation
Madeleine L’Engle’s domestic memoir; Julie Orringer’s humane short stories Andrea Wyner for The New York Times Leah Greenblatt is a writer and critic living in Brooklyn. Her most recent review for the Book Review was of “The Woman in Me,” by Britney Spears. Dear readers, I have always loved the idea of a sanitarium: Swaddle…
