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And more findings on the historic war on Black literacy and its contemporary, local parallels. A Tyee interview with Derek W.
This violent act of erasure sought to both delegitimize and eradicate queer and transgender people from history itself. Milo Todd’s breathtaking debut, “The Lilac People,” unearths an essential ...
Vietnam has been called the first “television” war. But it has also inspired generations of writers who have explored its ...
When my children complain, as they frequently do, about my draconian attempts to take away their screens and make them read a book ... Decapitating babies, burning entire families alive, raping ...
This mandatory inevitable heel turn is the price of conservative political ambition in the Donald Trump era. In exchange for the right to seek and attain national office in the party that he leads, ...
Conclave, a film starring Ralph Feinnes and Stanley Tucci, was released in November last year, with what is now being ...
Take here on Hartmann Report, I mentioned Russell Kirk and the origins of today’s hard right GOP. A few people replied with, ...
which he’d filled with all his books and our childhood portraits — where, in December, we had thrown a big party for his birthday. I could see my bedroom burning: my college journals ...
Maria Baranova Brecht, while not a Jew himself, was a prominent ally in opposing Hitler through words and deeds; as Ms. Hecht reminds us, “The Mother” was among the works targeted in Nazi book ...
The battle turned so fierce that the area reeked of burning powder ... Stacy Schiff, a Pulitzer Prize winning historian whose books include biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Adams ...
In America, there would usually be a paragraph ... But you know the images of Nazis burning books in the '30s in Germany. And now books are being thoroughly banned in libraries in Missouri ...