Posted on March 6, 2026 at 12:00 PM 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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Kelly Jensen opens the weekly roundup of book bans and challenges with a look back at how the late Reverend Jesse Jackson helped desegregate his hometown's library system and what it shows us about the ways in which power attempts to harm marginalized groups further by denying them free access to information (Book Riot).
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Portuguese novelist António Lobo Antunes, whose thirty-plus books (fiction and nonfiction) recorded his country's journey for better and for worse, died Thursday at age eighty-three (The New York Times).
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The American Library Association’s workers have formed a union that, once certified, will represent over 100 mainly Chicago-based ALA workers (Literary Hub).
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