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Utah State Board of Education Policy Opens Door to Book Bans; First Books To Go
After months of deliberation, this week the Utah State Board of Education passed a new policy regarding the books allowed within public schools. The new “library...
Announcing the Shortlist for the Inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
Today, the Ursula K. Le Guin Trust announces the Shortlist for the first Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. The prize honors a book-length work...
The Last Reversal
In the mid-sixth century AD a North African writer named Verecundus sat down to compose a Latin poem. Verecundus was a good Christian, indeed a bishop....
Hong Kong from the Inside
In November 2019 some one thousand young pro-democracy protesters occupied the campus of Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University, which is located at a crucial junction of two...
Downtown Confessional
Maybe a prostituteCould teach you howTo accept a compliment—The Tragically Hip, “Flamenco” It was 1989 when I saw John Lurie on TV in a late-night advertisement...
Socialists on the Knife-Edge
“A specter is haunting America,” intones the right-wing propagandist Dinesh D’Souza. “The specter of socialism.” As he speaks, in the opening sequence of his 2020 documentary...
Exhausting All Possibilities
There is a particular undertow of unease that comes with working all day at a desk and then playing video games at night. They are simply...
‘So Whimsical a Head’
Charles Lamb often complained of not being able to think on his own. “I dare not think, lest I [should think] wrong,” he told Dorothy Wordsworth...
At the Center of the Fringe
Sergio Pitol begins The Journey, a hybrid travelogue and literary chronicle, with an account of his failed attempt to write an essay about Prague, where he...
