Books
New book gives civil rights leader Alphaeus Hunton long overdue recognition
November 9, 2021People's World interviews Tony Pecinovsky, author and editor of a new book on the largely unknown civil rights leader.
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Liam O’Flaherty and the Irish Free State on its centennial
October 21, 2021Liam O’Flaherty is one of the foremost Irish fiction writers of the 20th century. Like none other, he commented on the times as they were unfolding.
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Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded Nobel literature prize
October 8, 2021The Swedish Academy said the award was in recognition of Gurnah’s “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee.”
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Recalling Victor Klemperer (1881-1960) and his ‘Language of the Third Reich’
October 7, 2021Victor Klemperer is remembered for his seminal study of the language of the Nazis.
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New U.S. stamp honors principled sci-fi and fantasy writer Ursula Le Guin
August 19, 2021The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has honored the cross-genre writings of Ursula K. Le Guin, the acclaimed science fiction and fantasy author, with the 33rd stamp in its literary series. The stamp was released on July...
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