Here are the literary birthdays to celebrate over the week of June 16, 2024. Joyce Carol Oates (June 16, 1938): Oates has been extremely prolific, producing not just novels (such as We Were the Mulvaneys and the National Book Award-winning them) but...
Here's a collection of literary posts that we didn't share on our reader blog last week but thought were worth sharing. The man behind Shakespeare's same-sex love sonnets (The Guardian) Inside America's first gay mail-order book...
Here's the latest news on book bans, challenges, and other literary restrictions. An anthology for teens called Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers’ Rights comes out next spring (Book Riot) Members of the literary world explain how...
Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days! VV Ganeshananthan and Naomi Klein win the Women’s Prize for fiction and nonfiction, respectively (The Guardian) Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks his mind on Trump's rages in his...