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Fitting that a few days after Valentine’s Day, New Yorkers may be reaching the end of their Mamdani honeymoon. Earlier this week, the Mayor released his preliminary budget for the 2027 fiscal year, and New Yorkers and library advocates were shocked to see lower proposed spending for the public library system than what Mayor Mamdani

From his exciting journeys in Africa to his time spent on the mission field closer to home. With brutal honesty that will both encourage and mesmerize, Bruce Wolff shares incredible details about an incredible life lived for the glory of God. Amid the sea of hopelessness and bad news, “Finding Hope Navigating an Obscure Path” is

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One scene above all others from the BBC’s 2011 series Human Planet demonstrates how humans have come to dominate the natural world. In the film, three members of the Dorobo people of Kenya, a client tribe of the better-known Maasai, intimidate and steal meat from a pride of fifteen lions gorging on the corpse of

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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1896, André Breton is born. LETTERS FROM MINNESOTA: Sahra Noor on the all-too-familiar feeling of men with guns in your neighborhood • Andrea Jenkins on the violent echoes of Reconstruction in the streets of the Twin Cities • Susan Raffo on holding space for humility in the

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The “Review-Driven” Book Is Not a Thing There are a lot of reasons to be concerned about the

One hundred Februarys back, the Irish justice minister Kevin O’Higgins took it upon himself to “stem the tide of filth” coming into his newly free state. O’Higgins assembled the Committee of Evil Literature, which is unfortunately just what it sounds like, to function as an early state censor for newspapers, books, plays and films that

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Language of Romance Learning the lingo is one of the great pleasures of diving into a new

In most situations when I say “I need the data,” I’m referring to gossip, and it’s less of a “need” than what some would call a “messy curiosity.” But recently, I came across a Substack post analyzing a set of open-sourced data on international bestsellers, and while its conclusions were interesting, I found that in

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“Whatever hand pulled the trigger did not buy the bullet.” This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On Sunday, February 21, 1965, a little after 3pm, as he was preparing to address his Organization of Afro-American Unity in New York’s Audubon Ballroom, the controversial civil rights leader and revolutionary Malcolm X was shot

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TODAY: In 1848, French author Octave Mirbeau is born. He dies on the same day in 1917. This week in literary history, Malcolm X is assassinated in New York City. | Lit Hub History “It was decent of Rothman to bring me an extra blanket and down pillow. You’ll be happy to know that I

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One day last summer, at my parents’ house on the east coast of Sweden, my dad says he wants to show me something. He pulls out a piece of paper. It’s a certificate of ownership from the National Archives (Riksarkivet), for the car he bought earlier in the summer. Article continues after advertisement My childhood

Little v. Llano County will continue to have an impact on library materials decisions and your right to access books in your public libraries. Today, lead plaintiff Leila Green Little is here to share the impetus for the lawsuit when the case began, how it progressed through the judicial system, and what the immediate and

I’ve been carrying my US Passport in my backpack lately. Sometimes my coat pocket. Or pants pocket. I pat-pat it as I cross campus; when I walk into the grocery store. I live in a small town over an hour from Minneapolis where most of the ICE activity in the state is happening. But I