Books – People's World

Teachers battle white supremacist crusade to ban books from libraries

May 20, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg

American Federation of Teachers co-leads a broad coalition to stop right-wingers from purging books from the shelves in libraries and schools.

Women achieve their hard-won agency: Two popular books in review

May 4, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon

Two highly popular novels are under review here, written by women and featuring heroines who overcome a great deal of male chauvinism to come into their own agency.

Lost people, spaces and places: The 2022 crime novel

April 12, 2022 By Dennis Broe

One of the largest international crime writing festivals in the world, the Quais du Polar, just closed in Lyon.

‘Ballad of an American: The Autobiography of Earl Robinson’ back in print

March 18, 2022 By C.J. Atkins

Ballad of an American: The Autobiography of Earl Robinson has just been reissued in a new paperback edition.

Novelist Thomas Mann gets a novel treatment in Colm Tóibín’s ‘The Magician’

January 24, 2022 By Jenny Farrell

Tóibín creates the world of Mann very well and does justice to his times.