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In late 1936 George Orwell, like so many young idealists from Europe and the USA, went off to fight fascism in Spain. By the spring of 1937 he realized he was in a war with not two but three sides. The USSR was holding back a full Spanish revolution while attacking the socialists and anarchists

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We’re back for round three of the internet’s favorite drunken biweekly “news” report, Am I the Literary Asshole—the only advice column that asks you to consider the fact that BOGO wine isn’t just a lifestyle, it’s also a state of mind. Today I ask you to join me for a glass (or three) as we

Libby, a free app through which patrons can check out books from their local public libraries, has joined the book award game. This year, on March 12th at 7 pm EST to be exact, the Libby Book Awards — also called the “Libbys” — will be presented. The award-winners will be out of 17 categories

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The adaptation of Shakespeare’s lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers story Much Ado About Nothing, titled Anyone But You, has grossed $189 million globally, making it the second highest-grossing live-action Shakespeare adaptation ever. The only other live-action adaptation of the Bard’s to beat it — if we aren’t counting 2019’s Lion King, since it is CGI — is Baz Luhrmann’s

February 21, 2024, 1:41pm As reported earlier this week by Ramy Abdu, Chairman of Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, the Israeli army has burned down the the publishing house and library of Al-Kalima in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza. Breaking: The Israeli army destroys and burns down the publishing house and library of Al-Kalima in

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“This woman cannot think, she feels.” An observation made in passing by Theodore Dreiser about the wife of a friend, Charles Fort; a casual summing-up by the famous novelist of a woman he considered of little importance. I was reading about Fort—an unusual cult figure from the early twentieth century whose books have inspired countless

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This was a regular feature of my childhood, though it feels so long ago and far away, conceptually as well as literally, that I nearly forgot it ever happened: I’d go into town to the mall with my mom, and she’d drop me at the doors of the Borders or Barnes and Noble while she