Books
‘The Slackers and Other Stories’: Earnest purpose, useful lessons and enjoyable reading
July 19, 2022The Slackers, comprising five separate short stories, presents small slices of historical fiction about the land the Romans called “Lusitania.”
Read more‘Open Your Window,’ from the newly published Brazilian novel ‘Never-Ending Youth’
July 12, 2022People’s World readers are invited to enjoy a chapter from the recently published novel "Never-Ending Youth," about the young generation's resistance against the Brazilian military régime in the early 1970s.
Read morePeter Lownds explains how and why he translated a recent Brazilian novel
June 27, 2022International Publishers has just released Never-Ending Youth, a recent novel by Northeast Brazilian writer Urariano Mota, in Peter Lownds’s translation.
Read moreTeachers 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.
Read moreWomen 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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