Posted on January 12, 2026 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the politics-adjacent bookish articles of the past few days.
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Texas A&M University's "new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race and gender" means, among many other consequences, that certain passages by Plato can't be taught (Literary Hub via Inside Higher Ed).
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Almost fifty writers are among those pulling out of the Adelaide Festival after organizers dropped Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah from its lineup, saying that while it wasn't connecting her in any way to the recent anti-semitic terror attack, it seemed "culturally insensitive" to include her given unspecified "past statements (The Guardian).
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French President Emmanuel Macron and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum exchanged ancient manuscripts recently, with the former returning the Codex Azcatitlán to the latter, who in turn gifted him the Codex Boturini (Literary Hub).
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Author Joanna Kavenna reflects on what we can learn from novelists like Jorge Luis Borges, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood who have predicted our present-day situations (The Guardian).
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