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7 New Books We Recommend This Week
New York Times· 7 days agoIt’s not all darkness, though: We also recommend a biography of the groundbreaking Chinese cooking star Fu Pei-mei, a prismatic portrait of five Black ballerinas from the ...
Fact Check: Benjamin Franklin Supposedly Gave This Antisemitic Speech. We Looked at the Evidence
Snopes via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoMore than five decades after the AJC pamphlet's publication, the American Philosophical Society...
10 rules for reading from someone who does it for a living
Portland Press Herald· 4 days agoWhere to read, when to read and why you need a pencil in hand: The Washington Post’s Michael Dirda...
Women's work: America's social safety net is built on sexist exploitation
Salon.com· 4 days agoWhen sociologist Jessica Calarco said that in an interview for Anne Helen Petersen's Culture Study...
Ann Powers was writing Joni Mitchell’s life story. She found her own.
The Christian Science Monitor· 3 days ago“I didn’t know that I needed Joni,” Ms. Powers says during a video call. Ms. Powers’ book...
Library program draws young readers
Effingham Daily News, Ill. via Yahoo News· 5 days agoJun. 7—Six-year-old Elsie Kinkelaar of Teutopolis likes to read. Her favorite book is "Should I Share My Ice Cream? by Mo Willems. So she and her mom came to the Effingham ...
A major reevaluation of the most masculine president
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 days agoTheodore Roosevelt carefully crafted his image of rugged manliness. But that image is not complete, according to “The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The...
Big Book Sale, a Lancaster library fundraiser, returns to F&M Monday with 250K books available
Lancaster Online· 4 days ago“The latest email I got was adorable,” says the Rev. Ron Adams, chair of a huge book sale benefiting...
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 1 day agoThe Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is the largest source for award-winning news and opinion that matters to you. Featuring up to the minute breaking news and...
Arts Briefs: A Sojourner Truth biographer comes to the Valley, a new take on a noted play, and more
Daily Hampshire Gazette· 7 days agoHistorian Nell Irvin Painter, the author of an acclaimed biography of Sojourner Truth, will visit...
