The case, involving Scholastic, led to an outcry among authors and became an example of how the culture wars behind a surge in book banning in schools has reached publishers.
Tag: Books and Literature
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Book Bans and What to Read in May
Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth Harris talk publishing news, and Joumana Khatib previews the month’s big books.
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What Our Toxic Culture Does to the Young
Baby boomers postponed common milestones of adulthood. Gen Z-ers are doing that with a vengeance.
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Is Annie Ernaux the Most Brutally Honest Writer Alive?
The Nobel laureate shows how women can write about every aspect of their lives — their pride, their sexuality, their shame — and still be taken seriously.
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Lincoln, Nebraska, Was a ‘Greenwich Village’ on the Prairie for Mari Sandoz
When Mari Sandoz, chronicler of frontier life, fled the Sandhills of Nebraska, she found fertile creative ground among the poets and artists of Lincoln. Exploring her world.