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Why Judy Blume Matters
50+ min ago (804+ words) (RNS) " I had weird reading habits when I was a kid. For one thing, no one ever told me that there were certain books that boys should read, and certain books that girls should read, and that there was a…...
Caste in Stone:" In 'Kali's Daughter,' Raghav Chandra Writes From the Marrow of the System He Critiques
23+ hour, 41+ min ago (619+ words) In 'Kali's Daughter,' Raghav Chandra Writes From the Marrow of the System He Critiques...
Gloria Steinem Hosted a Book Party at Her Historic Home for Lena Dunham
8+ hour, 37+ min ago (36+ words) Tonight is not about my book," Dunham, sporting baby bangs and a tweed dress, told Vogue. Instead, she had invited friends and family for another draw: You get to be inside Gloria Steinem's home!"...
OPINION: Lena Dunham wrote another Memoir. Why?
8+ hour, 6+ min ago (261+ words) Bruno's Tavern has closed indefinitely OPINION: No more crying in the Winn Dixie dairy aisle U. S. Supreme Court takes up Louisiana case on race and redistricting Loyola community remembers Dr. Mark Fernandez OPINION: Before the gate: The growing frustration with TSA…...
How Writer A'Lelia Bundles, Descendant of Madam C. J. Walker, Found Her Subject
10+ hour, 23+ min ago (921+ words) Through sweeping biographies of her foremothers, the journalist and author shares a dazzling American inheritance. Her own story belongs on the same high shelf. "She brought together this wonderful universe of people. Nobody else could have done it." "Hughes was…...
Noughties, Nazis and tittle-tattle " how my and my survivor grandma's lives chime
12+ hour, 29+ min ago (763+ words) Jess Robinson's memoir combines memories of her life in her twenties in London with her grandmother's under Hitler Anne Frank meets Bridget Jones." That's how Jess Robinson pitched her book to publishers, and it's a good summary. If Holocaust books…...
Latest book recommendations
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (910+ words) The latest gathering of The Book Circle was held on Wednesday, 8 April and a variety of books were shared. The next Book Circle meeting will be in July. The Night Fire - Michael Connelly Bosch attends the funeral of his old…...
A Shakespeare and Company Interview: Arundhati Roy
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (798+ words) A dear friend of mine once told me that Arundhati Roy was one of the most recognized people in India. This was particularly true, she said, in the state of Kerala, where Roy grew up'the difference there being that people…...
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney wins Stanley Kunitz poetry medal
22+ hour, 51+ min ago (25+ words) Poet Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, a professor at College of the Holy Cross, is the Worcester County Poetry Association's 2026 recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Medal....
Adam Driver is the least interesting bit about Lena Dunham's exposing memoir
2+ week, 1+ day ago (195+ words) Her "Girls" co-star and the Hollywood producer Scott Rudin find themselves in hot water following the publication of "Famesick" " but there is so much more to this book than simple score-settling, writes Annabel Nugent When Lena Dunham announced her new…...