Posted on February 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the politics-adjacent bookish news of the past few days.
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The National Endowment for the Arts has canceled the Challenge America grant — which supported projects to bring arts to underserved groups — for fiscal year 2026 and changed deadlines for the 2026 Grants for Arts Programs (Oregon ArtsWatch).
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Department of Defense Education Activity Schools administrators recently received a memo telling them to pull certain lessons and materials from their curriculum; Kelly Jensen goes into detail on the books and other items being targeted (Book Riot).
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Israeli police raided a Palestinian-owned bookshop in East Jerusalem and detained two of its owners on suspicion of "violating public order" (The Guardian).
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