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altaonline.com
- 28 days ago
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Catholic church in Kerala’s Alappuzha explores Christ’s teachings through literature this Lent
For Christians, Lent – the six-week period leading up to Easter – is a time of spiritual reflection and preparation, marked by prayer and fasting. In...
thehindu.com
- 28 days ago
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Hegseth’s policies at Defense Department schools spark on-base protests
Pete Hegseth has targeted Pentagon schools, books, libraries and learning materials. Many students aren’t taking this lying down. If I were to ask...
msnbc.com
- 28 days ago
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If He Hollers Let Him Go
When we first meet Bob Jones, he is dreaming. Or so it seems.His nightly off-kilter scenarios, however, all too closely resemble the gauntlet he...
altaonline.com
- 28 days ago
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Chic, Stylish, and Thought-Provoking Picture Books About Fashion
From biographies of designers to stories of kids finding clothing to fit their identities, there are so many amazing and informative picture books...
bookriot.com
- 28 days ago
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A monarch butterfly finds milkweed to lay her eggs
What happens when a monarch butterfly completes her remarkable journey but she’s still not at her species’ seasonal destination? This clip from...
thekidshouldseethis.com
- 28 days ago
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nature / books
The climate movement is talking about carbon all wrong, a new book argues
Burning oil, gas, and coal — literal fossil fuels, made from the compressed remains of ancient plants and plankton — has released carbon into Earth’s atmosphere,...
salon.com
- 28 days ago
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A Country Imperfectly Pulling Itself Together
Wildcat Dome’s characters can’t escape the calamities that marked their lives—and their country’s history. In 1940, just before his death, the theorist...
theatlantic.com
- 28 days ago
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Your Assigned Barbie Movie Based On Your Major
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Susqu chapter.Recently, I have been overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia...
hercampus.com
- 28 days ago
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third graders make books
Third graders Samuel Ashley and Rhiannon Stevens make little poetry books as part of a Mastheads' bookmaking project with Morningside Elementary....
berkshireeagle.com
- 28 days ago
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When the Death of a Colleague Meets Academic Publishing: A Call for Compassion - PubMed
What would you do if someone approached you to sign a publishing form on your partner's behalf within mere weeks of their death? After my...
nih.gov
- 28 days ago
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Book Review: 'There Is No Place For Us' shines lights on a homeless population often ignored
The public's perception and debate over homelessness is usually fixated on people living on the street, encampments or shelters. That view ignores an even larger...
aol.com
- 28 days ago
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Taschen showcases the 75-year history of Atlantic Records with a stunning new book packed with the work of iconic photographers
Taschen combines music and photography in a stunning new coffee table book showcasing iconic music photography while providing a comprehensive...
digitalcameraworld.com
- 28 days ago
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On Our Problematic Obsession with First-Love Stories
We first entered one another’s orbit when I was ten years old, at a sleepover organized by the local youth group. Over the next...
lithub.com
- 28 days ago
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Column: In ‘Cinema Her Way,’ female directors talk about struggle, survival and the industry
Just published by Rizzoli New York, “Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors in Their Own Words” is a beautiful 20-way conversation on the topic of...
chicagotribune.com
- 28 days ago
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Pick These Books Up for the Trans Rights Readathon
The third Trans Rights Readathon has begun! It runs from March 21st to March 31st to coincide with Trans Day of Visibility, and it aims...
bookriot.com
- 28 days ago
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‘Casablanca’ meets the spy world in WWII story of love and espionage
"The Librarians of Lisbon" is accurately described on the cover as "A WWII story of love and espionage," and novelist Suzanne Nelson certainly...
miamiherald.com
- 28 days ago
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The Parable of the Sower
I met Octavia E. Butler only once. A mutual friend insisted that I talk with her. The three of us were research fellows at the...
altaonline.com
- 28 days ago
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Chicago native authors 'How Black History Can Save Your Life' after becoming victim of hate crime
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A hate crime that was witnessed by people around the country has now led a Chicago native to create a tool for...
abc7chicago.com
- 28 days ago
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A Small Press Book We Love: Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than...
lithub.com
- 28 days ago
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No Such Thing as Duty
Donnelly (Base Notes) wows with this intimate genre-bending novella that is at once a WWI spy thriller and a supernatural alternate history pulled...
publishersweekly.com
- 28 days ago
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A legal scholar talks about 10 laws he says are 'ruining America'
In Bad Law, Elie Mystal argues that our country's laws on immigration, abortion and voting rights don't reflect the will of most Americans, and we'd...
npr.org
- 28 days ago
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apps / books
Traveling abroad soon? Learn a language quickly with these 4 apps
Traveling to another country is an exciting experience, but learning a new language in order to do so can be a challenge. Fitting lessons into...
foxnews.com
- 28 days ago
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Morning Open Thread: Under the Sun That Shines on Everyone
“What Do You Want a Poet For? To save the City, of course.” – Aristophanes, quoted by Dorothy Porter on The Monkey’s Mask title page “...
dailykos.com
- 28 days ago
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My New Reading Set Up is Ugly and Expensive. I’m Never Going Back.
One of the fun things about being in my thirties is that now I some time s get random neck pain. It’s a particular...
bookriot.com
- 28 days ago
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Book Review: Debut poetry collection 'Scream/Queen' views trans identity through horror
The LGBTQ+ community has a long, some time s fraught relationship with the horror genre; there’s a kinship in the Othering, in being feared...
stalbertgazette.com
- 28 days ago
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Lidia Yuknavitch on Shapeshifting
Write- minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers is currently in its fourth year. We are a weekly podcast for writers craving a unique blend of...
lithub.com
- 28 days ago
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Devil in a Blue Dress
Devil in a Blue Dress is noir as social commentary. Walter Mosley’s 1990 novel centers on Easy Rawlins, a Black self-taught World War II veteran...
altaonline.com
- 28 days ago
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The Current State of Romantasy
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.Give ‘Em Something to...
bookriot.com
- 28 days ago
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writing / books
20 gripping reads to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility
These excellent books by transgender or nonbinary writers are perfect picks for March 31—or any day of the year....
bookpage.com
- 28 days ago
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“India is the Vishwa Guru of Lying”– Amitava Kumar on Fake News, Power & The Green Book
Amitava Kumar’s latest, The Green Book: An Observer’s Notebook, is the third in a trilogy he has been working on these last few...
thehindu.com
- 28 days ago
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The Further Reading Library is a new collection of esoteric art and design books
Lovers of esoterica will rejoice at the arrival of a new imprint. The Further Reading Library releases its first five titles in April 2025, with an...
wallpaper.com
- 28 days ago
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The New Yorker Classics Newsletter
Richard Brody Film critic When Pauline Kael joined The New Yorker’s staff as a movie critic, in January, 1968, the world of cinema was undergoing...
newyorker.com
- 28 days ago
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When Did I Get Old ?! by Ellen Yaffa - Women Writers, Women's Books
by Ellen Yaffa Aging is like a cautionary tale. A horrified friend lectures her 70-year old husband as he descends from the roof, “At your...
booksbywomen.org
- 28 days ago
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Folk tale from Bhutan: How Acho La La, the full moon, saved a young girl from being eaten by a demon
An excerpt from ‘The Whispering Mountains: Greatest Himalayan Folktales,’ by Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal. Illustrated by Dennis Laishram. Dangbo...
scroll.in
- 28 days ago
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Flannery O’Connor At 100: Faith And Fiction In The American South
(ANALYSIS) If she were still with us, March 25 would mark Flannery O’Connor’s 100th birthday. This milestone invites us to explore the many ways...
religionunplugged.com
- 28 days ago
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KJo: No book, podcast can teach you to be the best version of yourself as a parent - Social News XYZ
Mumbai, March 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Filmmaker Karan Johar, who is a father to twins Roohi and Yash, watched the much-talked about series “Adolescence”...
socialnews.xyz
- 28 days ago
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Midjourney’s surprise: new research on making LLMs write more creatively
Midjourney is best known as one of the leading AI image generators — with nearly 20 million users on its Discord channel, according to third-party trackers, and...
venturebeat.com
- 28 days ago
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A Thousand Natural Shocks
Hussain debuts with an unconventional thriller that powerfully probes questions of family, death, and memory. Dash Hassan wants to forget everything....
publishersweekly.com
- 28 days ago
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Hundreds join LeVar Burton at Altadena Main Library, for a voice of hope in a fire-weary town
The actor and "Reading Rainbow" host read from his children's book about weathering life's storms. The lineup of LeVar Burton fans who descended on...
sgvtribune.com
- 28 days ago
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The Most Popular Book Genre In Each State
Are there different preferences for book genres depending on what state you’re in? According to new research from Cloudwards, there are trends in...
bookriot.com
- 28 days ago
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7 Terrifying Horror Novels Set in Small Towns - Electric Literature
Cozy small-town America is built into the bedrock of our cultural ethos. The charming vision of provincial life extends well into the modern era. One...
electricliterature.com
- 28 days ago
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Why I Write: I Do Not Know and Do Not Want to Know
Confession: I approach this topic with a certain queasiness. A palpable friction. Why do I write? Truthfully, I do not know and do not want...
altaonline.com
- 28 days ago
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Banned Meta expose by Sarah Wynn-Williams hits NY time s bestseller list
A scathing book about Facebook parent company Meta, whose Kiwi author has been barred from promoting her work, entered at the top of the New...
nzherald.co.nz
- 28 days ago
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Betty Smith enchanted a generation of readers with ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ − even as she groused that she hoped Williamsburg would be flattened | Nancy on Norwalk
Eighty years ago, in the winter and spring of 1944, Brooklyn-born author Betty Smith was entering a new chapter of life. A year earlier, she was...
nancyonnorwalk.com
- 28 days ago
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Book Review: 'Baldwin, Styron and Me’ a valuable contribution to current debates about DEI
The new book “Baldwin, Styron and Me” is an intellectual reflection that serves as a valuable contribution to the current debates about race, equity and...
apnews.com
- 28 days ago
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Lawrence Wright’s new novel investigates a murder mystery in the West Bank and the conflict at large
In Lawrence Wright’s new novel, “The Human Scale,” an Arab-American FBI agent and Israeli cop work to find the murderer of an Israeli police...
msnbc.com
- 28 days ago
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Woman in a Landscape
I didn’t need the painting to remember the Westfield River coiling below steep walls, the sun burning my upturned face clear of features, my...
newyorker.com
- 28 days ago
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School Library Events: Your April 2025 Inspiration
While my favorite time of year is Fall and Winter, from a school library perspective, my favorite is the Spring. Spring comes after the months...
aasl.org
- 28 days ago
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A former Meta executive characterizes company leadership as "careless" in new memoir : NPR's Book of the Day
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Meta executive, is now barred from discussing her criticism of the company. But before Meta gained an injunction against their former...
npr.org
- 28 days ago
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