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Hay Festival 2024: our guide to this year’s highlights
The Independent via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoIN FOCUS: Judi Dench talking Shakespeare, conversations with bestsellers Marian Keyes and David...
Hooked On Books: Homes Of Famed Late Authors Are Open To The Public
San Francisco Chronicle· 15 hours agoFor a diehard fan of the game played on the diamond, the ultimate pet project might be a pilgrimage, perhaps taken over a lifetime, to every one of the 30 Major League Baseball stadiums in the ...
Review: GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY at Bass Concert Hall
Broadway World· 3 days agoSeven months after a small stock market crash and recovery on March 25, the bottom fell out....
There's a revolution happening in children's publishing—you can thank the book bans
Fast Company Magazine· 7 days agoNikkolas Smith knows a thing or two about book bans. The illustrator has created five picture books...
Netflix Is Betting Big on Latin America
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance· 4 days ago(Bloomberg) -- In the middle of a vast swath of farmland a windy six-hour drive from Bogota, Colombia, lies the heart of the biggest Netflix production...
Paying a price to speak out, dissident writers help preserve freedoms | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell News Service· 5 days agoNarges Mohammedi, a journalist and women’s rights activist, smuggled her Nobel Peace Prize speech...
Around the World in 80 Books
AFAR· 4 days agoIt was in 1872, you see, that French author Jules Verne published his adventure novel, Around the World in 80 Days. In it, a rich British gentleman named Phineas Fogg and his trusty French valet ...
Helen Vendler, a towering presence in poetry criticism, has died - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 5 days agoProfessor Vendler, whose careful consideration of poems helped some of her era’s best poets better...
Five books by Maryse Condé to introduce you to the award-winning Guadeloupian writer
The Conversation· 3 days agoGuadeloupian writer Maryse Condé, who has died aged 90, left a body of work which includes many deeply nuanced and wide-ranging responses to the centuries of often violent contact between cultures ...
Helen Vendler, poetry critic both revered and feared, dies at 90
Washington Post· 4 days agoHelen Vendler, a literary scholar and reviewer of poetry who was revered and feared in equal...
