Florida public schools remove library books, fearing state reprisal Aug 08 2025 Nine Florida counties have removed hundreds of books from public school classrooms and libraries before the start of the 2025–2026... Read more »
National Association of Black Bookstores launches Aug 06 2025 The National Association of Black Bookstores, a member-based nonprofit organization which aims to support and promote Black booksellers, announced its launch on Friday.... Read more »
How influential is a name? This is the question underpinning The Names, which opens with Cora taking her newborn son to register his birth. Her abusive husband Gordon wants his son to... Read more »
Bestselling crime writer James Patterson and investigative journalist Vicky Ward are writing a book on the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, while actor Dave Franco said this week that he would... Read more »
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Some years ago, a colleague on the Irish Times took the columnist Nuala O’Faolain to lunch. Nuala was famous, and feared, as a controversialist who specialised in attacking popular pieties, unless it was the... Read more »
A rare first edition of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit that was found during a house clearance has sold at auction for £43,000. Bought by a private collector in the UK, the book... Read more »
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I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom is a new biography by Professor Julia Gaffield of William & Mary. The book sheds light on the life and legacy of... Read more »