Books
Teachers battle white supremacist crusade to ban books from libraries
May 20, 2022American Federation of Teachers co-leads a broad coalition to stop right-wingers from purging books from the shelves in libraries and schools.
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Women achieve their hard-won agency: Two popular books in review
May 4, 2022Two 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.
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Lost people, spaces and places: The 2022 crime novel
April 12, 2022One of the largest international crime writing festivals in the world, the Quais du Polar, just closed in Lyon.
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‘Ballad of an American: The Autobiography of Earl Robinson’ back in print
March 18, 2022Ballad of an American: The Autobiography of Earl Robinson has just been reissued in a new paperback edition.
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Novelist Thomas Mann gets a novel treatment in Colm Tóibín’s ‘The Magician’
January 24, 2022Tóibín creates the world of Mann very well and does justice to his times.
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