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What are the top 10 most banned books in the US? See PEN America's list. PEN America reports that nearly 4,000 unique book titles were challenged for banning in the U.S. in 2024. Take a look at the titles.
07.10.2025 07:08 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Book Bans May Have Unintended Consequences In Increasingly Polarized United States In the United States, amid increasing political polarization, book banning has grown in prevalence. A new study using a large-scale data set of U.S. library book circulations evaluated the impact of b...
06.10.2025 23:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The National Book Award Interviews: Vincenzo Latronico and Sophie Hughes - Words Without Borders Vincenzo Latronico and Sophie Hughes discuss "Perfection," longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
06.10.2025 21:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What Was Best About the ‘Best American Poetry’?
06.10.2025 16:23 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
A Certain Lucas Lucas, His Communications Since he not only writes but likes to go over to the other side and read what others write, Lucas is surprised sometimes at how difficult it turns out to be for him to und…
06.10.2025 16:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What Time Provides: Mining the Creative Unconscious For Inspiration More than twenty years ago, I walked into Kremer Pigment, a small shop in lower Manhattan, and by the time I left, I had the idea for a novel—a story about pigment—and had signed up for a workshop …
06.10.2025 16:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“It’s Okay But It’s Also Really Not.” When Dystopian Fiction is No Longer a Thought Experiment Dystopian fiction is getting real, and I’m here for it. I don’t think I’m the only one. There’s something cathartic about reading about the end of the world. As a science fiction reader and avid fa…
06.10.2025 16:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Uncanny Prescience: Revisiting Kafka’s Amerika Unlike the obsessive protagonists of The Trial and The Castle, who draw us into their labyrinthine thinking, Karl Rossmann, the naive young hero of Kafka’s Amerika or, to use Kafka’s own title, Der…
06.10.2025 16:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Harassment at the Strip Club Prepared Me For Publishing When my essay about paying for $42,000 worth of dental work with sugar baby money first ran in HuffPost Personal, I was thrilled. Having only published in small literary magazines before, I wasn’t …
06.10.2025 16:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’
06.10.2025 14:35 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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‘My poems are part of my flesh’: Palestinian poet Batool Abu Akleen on life in Gaza At just 20, the poet is one of the most vivid witnesses to the conflict. She talks about dreams of Oxford, the deaths of friends and how tragedy has shaped the person she has become

‘My poems are part of my flesh’: Palestinian poet Batool Abu Akleen on life in Gaza

At just 20, she is one of the most vivid witnesses to the conflict. She talks about dreams of Oxford, the deaths of friends and how tragedy has shaped the person she has become

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

06.10.2025 13:12 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Tell Congress: No book bans in military schools Schools run by the Department of Defense on military bases have banned hundreds of books and altered curricula that the Trump administration doesn't agree with. Take action.
06.10.2025 13:13 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Museum of Science and Industry workers’ union votes to authorize strike The museum employees have been in contract negotiations for more than two years. Workers say 90% of eligible employees voted to strike, if necessary.
06.10.2025 12:44 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Home - Black Arts Directory of Chicago Celebrate Black Arts and Culture Your essential guide to discovering and supporting African American performing arts in Chicago and beyond. Click here for Events 01. Discover Easily find and attend sh...
06.10.2025 12:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An Art Magazine? In This Economy? The sudden, unlikely rise of Cultured.
06.10.2025 12:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Writers on Writing: Sarah Ruhl and Rebecca Makkai Award-winning authors Sarah Ruhl and Rebecca Makkai will reflect on the work and craft of writing.
06.10.2025 12:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Golden Ratio: Taking the Measure of Thomas Pynchon’s “Shadow Ticket” | Newcity Lit The long-awaited novel is a Depression-era noir set in Milwaukee, Chicago and the Hungarian hinterlands.
06.10.2025 12:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The dumbing down of America, one banned book at a time A majority of Americans are against book bans. That won't stop a well funded, fear-fueled movement.
06.10.2025 11:42 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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1367: Abundance by Rick Barot Today’s poem is Abundance by Rick Barot.
06.10.2025 11:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Grandfather Ascending a Staircase by José A. Alcántara - Rattle: Poetry My son’s sons will be suns to their own sons.   My daughter’s daughters will be laughter and more laughter. […]
06.10.2025 11:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Light in the Dawn | Poems and Whiskey Someday soon, You Will See
06.10.2025 11:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Reprise: Rosanna Warren on “They set about wasting the land” What was clear was that it was spreading fast: corpses were piling up in trucks because the morgues were full. Death tolls were soaring. Citizens attacked citizens.
06.10.2025 11:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“They set about wasting the land” When the plague first broke out         among                 the Athenians
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Standup Sonnet Imported, my given name barely sounds
06.10.2025 10:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One Hundred Years of Fortitude On the forgotten censorship of Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy
06.10.2025 10:10 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
TABLEWARE magazine

I’m thrilled to have a poem in the inaugural issue of TABLEWARE magazine!

06.10.2025 04:50 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Ship Ahoy In this Ursula K. Le Guin story from Searoad, the owner of a rundown motel on the Oregon coast imagines a better life in a different world.
06.10.2025 03:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Let there / be night: A Conversation with Kevin Young about "Night Watch" - The Rumpus The book as a whole is interested in the finding as much as the knowing and the discoveries of grief, but also of survival, and ends with a kind of paradise. I guess it’s interested in not just the un...
06.10.2025 03:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Labor and Trauma in the American Workplace: A Conversation with Elaine Castillo - The Rumpus “A lot of people think financial ruin looks like Dickensian destitution. But for many Americans, what it looks like is a never-ending credit card debt. Financial illiteracy can look very luxurious. Bu...
06.10.2025 03:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pulitzer Prize Finalist Ed Park, on his Debut Short Story Collection, "An Oral History of Atlantis" - The Rumpus Pale Fire in particular I find genuinely hilarious, and thinking about “Note” now, it reads like a minor variation on that novel’s schema, with the original creator getting in the last word
06.10.2025 03:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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