ICYMI, a nationwide book ban bill has been introduced in the States, targeting LGBTQIA+ voices, especially trans voices.
Call your reps about H.R. 7661 ☎️
ICYMI, a nationwide book ban bill has been introduced in the States, targeting LGBTQIA+ voices, especially trans voices.
Call your reps about H.R. 7661 ☎️
Hilarious cameo by Philip Larkin www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/b...
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New on Book Post → Noah Simon on the beautiful and complex legacy of chestnuts.
“In Italian, Ettore compares the relationship between chestnuts and human beings to our relationships with dogs and horses—a coevolution.”
books.substack.com/p/diary-noah...
Baldwin’s librarian
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Might this trustee ownership structure have something to do with its longevity? @maxtani.bsky.social
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Child asking me about photographs in my office…
”…is this one your mother, or your teacher?”
“That is Iris Murdoch, my favorite novelist and philosopher”
“Is this one your mother?”
“…that is also Iris Murdoch.”
Last week, scholar Alexander Manshel published a vital paper about American reading habits. He noted that “high school English is the place where many lifelong readers are made,” he declared the high school English classroom “the most influential literary institution in the United States.”
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View of the day from Book Post author Brianna Zimmerman of the Trinity College Dublin post-graduate study room. 📖
Read Brianna Zimmerman’s latest review of On Earth or In Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus by Eric Calderwood, now on Book Post.
“When I began editing… to me it was an almost euphoric experience… yourself just disappears, and you are sort of swimming through this language and trying to help it be what it needs to be or trying to be.” –Ann Kjellberg on The Bookshop Podcast
thebookshoppodcast.buzzsprout.com/1400590/epis...
Read the new review here → books.substack.com/p/review-bri...
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Al-Andalus—a dynamic place where people’s contradictions were grappled with: “ways of praying, ways of loving... ways of enjoying, ways of living.”
Brianna Zimmerman reviews On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus now on Book Post: books.substack.com/p/review-bri...
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22.02.2026 04:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They never let us come… 😢
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Event commemorating Book World at Politics and Prose on Connecticut Avenue at 5 o’clock February 21st.
If you’re in DC tomorrow and want to see a lot of bookish people in one place, I have good news:
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With Ron Charles and Becca Rothfeld laid off from WaPo, there are now only 5 full-time book critics working in the United States.
That's down from 7 when this pubbed last year, though you may find my definition of a "full-time book critic" arbitrary.
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
Librarian here. We grant library cards to ALL residents, no matter their age or legal status. Our ID requirements pertain to establishing residency only. Do not invoke libraries, which embrace *everyone* in its civic fold, as a precedent for measures designed to *suppress* civic participation.
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This is how you live a life
17.02.2026 02:32 — 👍 4256 🔁 1010 💬 25 📌 32“I am trying to harvest a crop,” he said, “which I have not planted, and which may not exist.”
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Also with digital reading habits what reviews there are do not get seen by the circumstantial reader as they once were in newspapers & magazines; they are seen by people who seek them out. Why we started Book Post books.substack.com/p/notebook-r...
15.02.2026 12:55 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Last semester, I got very excited about one endnote, then ALL the endnotes, in Wilson’s Iliad. Then @bookpostusa.bsky.social gave me the chance to write about them: books.substack.com/p/diary-laur...
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New Post → Laura Kolb on the joy of great annotations hitting their mark and the stellar marksmanship in a translation of The Iliad.
books.substack.com/p/diary-laur...
@wwnorton.com @laurakolb.bsky.social
Since I heard Penn State launched a course called "One Book Slowly" this year (Eric Hayot is teaching Madame Bovary) I can't stop thinking about it
11.02.2026 21:26 — 👍 149 🔁 31 💬 13 📌 12I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.
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We had a Book Post Editor’s Note a week ago about the removal of an exhibit about the enslaved in George Washington’s household from the Independence Hall historic site in Philadelphia. More in the Times this week about Philadelphians’ resistance to the excision.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a...
If Bilbo had Chat GPT
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