Books
Arkansas bans children’s books on LGBTQ topics and racism; librarians and booksellers sue
June 2, 2023Censorship law could see librarians and booksellers jailed.
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‘Never-Ending Youth’: Urariano Mota’s novel-memoir of resistance to Brazilian fascism
June 2, 2023Based on real people or composites of real people, Mota’s work offers snapshots of 1970s Brazil’s radical youth movement.
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‘The Lonesome Vigilante’: John Steinbeck explains Tucker Carlson
May 10, 2023“It’s not how white men fight” is the opposite of truth and only confirms Carlson’s raging racism.
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First they burned books, then people: Lessons of the Nazis’ 1933 book blaze
May 9, 2023A Berlin memorial shows the horror beneath the surface and issues a warning for our time.
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The upside of regicide: Revisiting England’s republican revolution as another Charles is crowned
May 5, 2023The new book gives an account of the ideological creativity that was sparked by the abolition of the monarchy in England.
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