Posted on February 22, 2024 at 7:56 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!
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Animal-rights lawyer Steven M. Wise, who wrote several books on his area of expertise and passion, has died at the age of seventy-three (The New York Times).
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Read the previously unpublished poem "Stopping Dead from the Neck Up" by poet, critic, and editor Delmore Schwartz (The Paris Review).
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The Israeli army has burned down the publishing house and library of Al-Kalima in Gaza (Literary Hub).
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A review of famous — and famously fierce — former book critic Michiko Kakutani's new book, The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider, turns the tables on her (Slate).
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