Books
Learning from the Germans: how we might atone for America’s evils | World news
Under the subtitle Race and the Memory of Evil, the philosopher Susan Neiman relates hard truths from which others shrink. Her audacious work is a refreshing change from those, afraid to offend, who leave unsaid things that seem self-evident. Cages detaining refugees at the southern border are indeed “concentration camps”. The genocide of Native Americans …
Derek Owusu: ‘Mental health issues that people find scary aren’t being talked about’ | Books
Derek Owusu was born in London in 1988. His new book, That Reminds Me, is published by Stormzy’s #Merky Books and is a novel-in-verse that explores identity, belonging, his experience of growing up in foster care, and his mental breakdown last year. Owusu edited the anthology Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space (2019) and …
Conneaut Area City Schools renewal levy would aid technology, books | Local News
CONNEAUT — A renewal levy to help the Conneaut Area City Schools district stay atop its technology and textbook needs will come before voters in the Nov. 5 general election. The 1.5-mill permanent improvement levy would raise an estimated $220,000 each year of its five-year lifespan. The levy would cost a resident with property valued …
The fake news that pushed US into World War II
On Oct. 27, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took the stage at The Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, to speak in honor of Navy Day. With Britain under Nazi siege, Roosevelt wanted the United States to join the fight. The American public was not convinced. “I have in my possession a secret map made by …
Caroline Criado Perez: ‘No one ever changed the world by being nice’ | Books
The book I am currently readingDeborah Levy’s The Cost of Living. After years of reading almost exclusively men, I’m now addicted to sharp female writers like Levy who write about what it is to be a woman. I don’t think I’ll ever tire of the excitement of recognising how I see the world in a …
Breaking and Mending by Joanna Cannon review – a superb medical memoir | Books
Stories are what medicine and novel writing share, says Joanna Cannon, bestselling author of The Trouble With Goats and Sheep and Three Things About Elsie. “We tell our stories in the hope that someone out there will listen, and we will be understood.” Breaking and Mending is an account of what nearly broke her when …
Canadian author Graeme Gibson dies aged 85 | World news
The Canadian author and conservationist Graeme Gibson has died at the age of 85. Gibson was the long-term partner of Margaret Atwood, and was with the novelist while she toured to promote her new book, The Testaments. Atwood said in a statement this afternoon that her family was “devastated by the loss of Graeme, our …
Talking About ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Books’
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading by Leah Price Published in August of 2019. Nowadays, we expect much from our books. Readers who prefer paper look to books for not only entertainment and edification, but also to enforce a disconnect from the world of screen-based distraction. …
Beyond books: School librarians now tasked with teaching technology, digital citizenship – News – The Register-Guard
The classic image of a school librarian shown in movies and TV is that of the character who loves books, lives by the Dewey Decimal system and constantly has a finger pressed to their lips shushing noisy students. That’s not the reality of a school librarian anymore. Now, libraries serve as spaces for crafting, socializing …
Jailed Turkish writer Ahmet Altan: My words cannot be imprisoned | World news
“You can imprison me but you cannot keep me here,” writes Ahmet Altan at the end of his acclaimed book I Will Never See the World Again. “Because, like all writers, I have magic. I can pass through your walls with ease.” The novelist’s series of essays, smuggled out of jail among notes to his …
