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Since the War, Events About Palestinian Culture Have Been Called Off
Some fear that the raft of cancellations at this moment of war and tragedy is limiting opportunities to foster dialogue…
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Opinion
Eve Bunting, 94, Dies; Tackled Adult Themes in Children’s Books
Many of the more than 250 books she published explored contemporary social issues; others retold fables from her native Northern…
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Helen Garner Keeps ‘Paradise Lost’ and a Bible Close at Hand
What books are on your night stand? “Urn Burial,” by Sir Thomas Browne, “Paradise Lost,” by John Milton, the King…
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Opinion
Stephen Rubin, ‘Quintessential Hitmaker’ of the Book World, Dies at 81
He entered publishing when he was 43, then published many of the most popular books of recent decades, including “The…
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For Book Fairs, Scholastic Will Separate Titles That Deal With Race and Gender
Schools can opt to display these books — or not. The list includes biographies of the civil rights icon John…
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Teju Cole Knows His New Novel Resembles Autofiction. Please Don’t Be Tempted.
“Tremor,” his first novel in over a decade, is set in Massachusetts and Lagos, and came from a desire to…
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Five Louise Glück Poems to Get You Started
The American writer, who won a Nobel Prize in 2020, wrote with cool clarity and often puckish wit.
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Opinion
Louise Meriwether Dies at 100; in 1970, a New, Black Literary Voice
Writing of life in Harlem, she emerged at the same time as Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou but never achieved…
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Frankfurt Book Fair Cancels Award Ceremony for Palestinian Author
Organizers cited the Israel-Hamas war as the reason for stepping back from honoring a novel about the 1949 murder of…
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Opinion
Behind the Most Famous Men in Economics There Have Always Been Women
When the Nobel Committee awarded its prize in economics on Monday to the Harvard professor Claudia Goldin — the first…