Zibby Media Withdraws National Book Award Sponsorship over Potential for ‘Hate Speech’

Zibby Media Withdraws National Book Award Sponsorship over Potential for ‘Hate Speech’

Zibby Media Withdraws National Book Award Sponsorship over Potential for ‘Hate Speech’ Nov 15 2023 Ahead of this year’s National Book Awards ceremony, publisher Zibby Media has withdrawn its sponsorship of the... Read more »
‘Hallucinate’ chosen as Cambridge dictionary’s word of the year | Books

‘Hallucinate’ chosen as Cambridge dictionary’s word of the year | Books

Cambridge dictionary’s word of the year for 2023 is “hallucinate” – a verb that gained an additional meaning this year. The original definition of the chosen word is to “seem to see,... Read more »
Salman Rushdie receives award in rare appearance at New York event | Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie receives award in rare appearance at New York event | Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie made a rare public appearance since he was stabbed and attacked at a literary event last year when the author collected an award on Wednesday night at the Václav Havel... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, November 14th

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, November 14th

“He refuses to follow the code of ethics because he’s a corruption originalist.” Source link Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, November 14th

For a Hungry Book Critic, Every Word Is a Feast

It is a hazard to read on an empty stomach. What is it about words that makes things taste so delicious? I can still recall the twelfth-grade English class, held just before... Read more »
“My Name Is Barbra,” Reviewed: Streisand’s Mother of All Memoirs

“My Name Is Barbra,” Reviewed: Streisand’s Mother of All Memoirs

Seventy years ago, before she was galactically famous, before she dropped an “a” from her first name, before she was a Broadway ingénue, before her nose bump was aspirational, before she changed... Read more »
NIMH » Saving Lives Through the Science of Suicide Prevention

NIMH » Saving Lives Through the Science of Suicide Prevention

November 13, 2023 • Feature Story • 75th Anniversary At a Glance Suicide is among the leading causes of death in the United States.  Recognizing the urgency of this issue, NIMH has... Read more »
The Grounds of the Novel

The Grounds of the Novel

What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless? In a powerful engagement with the latest debates in novel theory, Daniel Wright investigates how novelists reckon... Read more »
Of Effacement: Blackness and Non-Being

Of Effacement: Blackness and Non-Being

In Of Effacement, David Marriott endeavors to demolish established opinion about what blackness is and reorient our understanding of what it is not in art, philosophy, autobiography, literary theory, political theory, and... Read more »
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