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Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga review – a woman’s defiant fight to write
Source: The GuardianThe Zimbabwean author celebrates the act of artistic creation while exploring the colonial, racial and gender biases she has faced Zimbabwean writer T... Read More
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Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval by Gaia Vince review – a world without borders
Source: The GuardianIn an optimistic new work, the author of Adventures in the Anthropocene argues that planned mass migration is essential for humanity to inhabit a worl... Read More
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The Last Colony by Philippe Sands review – Britain’s Chagos Islands shame
Source: The GuardianThe Chagossians were forced from their archipelago in the Indian Ocean in the 1970s, and Britain still refuses to hand it back. Human rights lawyer Ph... Read More
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Author interview: Blitz Bazawule
Source: NPRNPR's Michel Martin speaks with writer, filmmaker and musician Blitz Bazawule about his new novel, The Scent of Burnt Flowers .... Read More
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Namwali Serpell: ‘I find uncertainty compelling in literature’
Source: The GuardianThe award-winning Zambia-born writer on her reading habits, being emboldened by Toni Morrison, and her belief that books aren’t about self-improvement... Read More
BREAKING
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Jan Longone, Influential Scholar of Food History, Dies at 89
Source: NYTThe cookbook collection that began in the basement of her home became the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive at the University of Michigan.... Read More
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Books We Love: 3 recommendations for a non-fiction read
Source: NPRA summer edition of NPR's Books We Love. Today, we hear recommendations from our staff for three non-fiction titles: "Making Videogames," "The Ninetie... Read More
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Short 'Stories from the Tenants Downstairs' describe the gentrification of their home
Source: NPRNPR's Daniel Estrin talks with author Sidik Fofana about his debut collection, "Stories from the Tenants Downstairs."... Read More
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Novelist Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator after being stabbed at a speaking event
Source: NPRNovelist Salman Rushdie suffered damage to his liver, nerves and an eye when he was attacked at a speaking event in western New York state Friday, acc... Read More
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Killer crabs and bad leprechauns: how the best book blurbs excite our brains
Source: The GuardianBook jackets have been enticing potential readers for nearly 200 years with copy that amuses and intrigues. Here, a veteran blurb writer reveals their... Read More
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Book Review: “A History of Present Illness,” by Anna DeForest
Source: NYT“A History of Present Illness” is a fictional account from a first-time author who is a doctor.... Read More
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‘Books bring us into being’: how writing about reading became an inspiring literary genre of its own
Source: The GuardianBibliomemoirs are an increasingly popular way for writers to celebrate reading and its power to shape lives Books throw us into the world as much as t... Read More
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