The Texas education board has approved a broad new statewide reading list that, for the first time, will make passages from the Bible required reading for more than 5 million public school... Read more »
It was the family home where William Wordsworth hosted Alfred, Lord Tennyson, lived as poet laureate and worked on his epic autobiographical poem The Prelude. Now, after a long period of decline... Read more »
Lying in her Birmingham hospital bed in the weeks after she’d been shot in the head by a Taliban assassin, 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai used to imagine the conversation she would have with Taliban leadership.... Read more »
In Katabasis, two graduate students at a magical version of Cambridge University go to Hell to rescue the soul of their adviser so he can give them a letter of recommendation. Anyone who... Read more »
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 »
“The United States is not idea. We are human beings and nobody represents that more in my book than latinos.” Marie Arana has had a fascinating career as an editor and writer... Read more »
We readers of Mathias Énard’s The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild know something that the novel’s protagonist could not: No one, at least in this corner of France, ever really dies.... Read more »
When Evelyn Reeves bought her first rental property in 1969, it felt like freedom. Born in Los Angeles in 1941 to a waitress and a postal worker from Alabama, Reeves purchased this... Read more »
Book News: On appeal, Llano County seeks book ban ruling that would upend public libraries
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