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The 57 books challenged in New York libraries in 2023
Albany Times Union· 6 hours agoMore than 50 books were challenged last year at New York state school or public libraries, according...
Lauren Groff’s Indie Bookstore the Lynx Is an Answer to Florida’s Book Bans
Teen Vogue via Yahoo News· 4 days agoI went through every single one of them. We will have a whole banned book section when you first...
In Florida, a bestselling author is building a new community of literary resistance
CNN via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoLauren Groff set out to open an independent bookstore that could stand up to her adopted home...
An underappreciated era in Black literature gets its due - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 1 day agoIn “The Blue Period,” Jesse McCarthy zooms in on Black authors who lived and wrote between 1945 and...
Legislators put their SC school district into spotlight of book challenge debate
South Carolina Daily Gazette via Yahoo News· 2 days agoCulture war debates over what’s appropriate for library shelves put a rural South Carolina school...
Sultan Zeshan reveals hidden African American connection to the Kentucky Derby
Rolling Out· 3 days agoIt's almost time for the Kentucky Derby. Social elites will join horseracing fans for one of the...
‘A Long-Tongue Saga’ | Christopher Byrd
New York Review of Books· 1 day agoAlthough Forrest was praised by Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Stanley Crouch, and Toni Morrison (who edited his first three novels for Random House), his...
This funny, bold book about moms and reading might be the perfect last-minute Mother's Day gift.
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 2 days ago"Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied." Who is that talking? "Real Housewife of New Jersey" Teresa Giudice? Or Mrs. Bennet, from "Pride ...
The Artist Who Burned the U.S. Flag Raises a New One in Venice
New York Times· 2 days agoDread Scott’s unabashedly activist art once led to a Supreme Court ruling on free speech. Nobody...
Deleting distress | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette· 6 days agoInstead of traditional maroon and gold Tibetan Buddhist robes, Lama Rod Owens wore a white animal...
