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Fact Check: About a James Baldwin Quote That Suggests Reasons Those in Power Dismiss Protests by...
Snopes via Yahoo News· 5 days agoGetty Images Claim: James Baldwin wrote, "When the South has trouble with its Negroes — when the...
Book Notes: A bouquet of poems to celebrate May
The Day· 6 days agoOn Sunday May 12, at 5 p.m. (Mother’s Day) the Stonington Free Library is very fortunate to have Professor David Leeming speak on the occasion of James Baldwin< ...
I Manage Money For Millionaires: 3 Things Wealthy Americans Never Spend Their Money On — and Two...
GOBankingRates via Yahoo Finance· 3 days agoJames Baldwin famously said, "Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely...
The Complicated Ethics of Rare-Book Collecting
The Atlantic· 5 days agoWhen Penn State University’s Toby and Betty Bruce Collection of Ernest Hemingway acquired the items in 2021, it represented the most significant trove of...
Hay Festival 2024: our guide to this year’s highlights
The Independent via Yahoo News· 5 days agoIN FOCUS: Judi Dench talking Shakespeare, conversations with bestsellers Marian Keyes and David...
What Shakespeare can teach us about racism
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 days agoConsidered the greatest writer in English literature, William Shakespeare illustrates views on race and whiteness throughout all of his dramatic works.
Russian publisher redacts book on gay Italian director amid LGBT crackdown
Reuters via Yahoo News· 4 days agoRoberto Carnero, an Italian literature professor at the University of Bologna, was shocked when he...
Author has advice for writers: Attenberg’s book aims to keep you motivated to write
The Columbian· 3 days agoYou need someone like Jami Attenberg, of Buffalo Grove, Ill., in your head. When she began this one, she imagined she was writing something motivational and repetitive, like the self-help book she once read to stop smoking.
Can You Recognize This Novel From a One-Line Description?
New York Times· 1 day agoWelcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s multiple-choice quiz designed to test your knowledge of books and literary culture. This week’s challenge asks you to identify five ...
Turns Out Martin Luther King Jr. Didn’t Really Criticize Malcolm X
Biography via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoMartin Luther King Jr.’s oft-referenced criticism of Malcolm X in a 1965 ‘Playboy’ interview was...
