A child browses for books at Sidekick Coffee & Books in Iowa City. — Zak Neumann/Little Village The impact of the book banning provisions in SF 496, which Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law in May, is becoming clearer as the Des Moines Register continues to update its database of books pulled from classrooms and…

“I DON’T EVEN KNOW what a human is,” a young girl says as she passes me on the beach in Maine. I am reading The Long Form by Kate Briggs in a blue swimsuit eating fresh mango and wondering yet again why I am so drawn to books about motherhood. Every other tourist in Maine…

26 October 2023   Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing Creative Australia has announced the titles shortlisted for the 2023 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Nonfiction Shirley Hazzard: A writing life (Brigitta Olubas, Virago) We Come With This Place (Debra Dank, Echo) Indelible City: Dispossession and defiance in Hong Kong (Louisa Lim,…

Thursday, Oct 26, 2023 • Cristal Gonzalez : contact The signature line of Daniel Kasper’s email, where a sender might normally include an inspirational quote, is a little different than most. His reads: “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,” Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and they were upon her. It’s the closing sentence of Shirley Jackson’s famous…

The United States is facing a storm of protests for passing new laws and regulations leading to book bans across the country. Texas alone has become the second-highest state for banning books in public schools. Overall, book bans have increased by 33% over the last year, according to a September report by Pen America. In…

Photo by Ben Barnhart By Jennifer A. Stern October 25, 2023 The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts recently got a total makeover. The Center, one of the preeminent Yiddish institutions in the world, offers a wide variety of indispensable resources on its website for researchers and Yiddish enthusiasts alike. But since its founding in…

Opal and the house’s last heir must work together to uncover the secrets of Starling House and face the converging evil forces in Eden.  “Starling House is an absolutely stunning and intoxicating take on the Southern Gothic tradition, wonderfully wrought and imbued with secrets,” Jordan April, a bookseller and receiver at Flyleaf, wrote on a…

NEW YORK (AP) — Tens of thousands of books are being banned or restricted by U.S. prisons, according to a new report from PEN America. The list includes everything from self-help books to an Elmore Leonard novel. “The common concept underpinning the censorship we’re seeing is that certain ideas and information are a threat,” says…

Report examines Florida book bans Report examines Florida book bans 02:16 After a flurry of criticism, Scholastic is reversing a decision to allow school districts to exclude books that deal with race, LGBTQ and other issues related to diversity from the publisher’s popular book fairs.  The company had initially defended the opt out as a…

Gothic literature foreshadowed modern concepts of medical psychopathy, as well as the characteristics of serial killers. The crime fiction that followed delved deeper into these ideas that were ultimately upheld by scientific research. That’s the main conclusion of a book (El monstruo y el asesino en serie. De Frankenstein a Hannibal Lecter) by criminology professor…