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May 09 2019: Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche communities for adults with learning disabilities, living alongside those without them, has died aged 90.
In August 1964, having giving up his job teaching philosophy at the University of Toronto, he bought a small, rundown house ...
May 08 2019: The Poetry Foundation has announced Marilyn Nelson as the winner of the 2019 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Naomi Shihab Nye the 2019–2021 Young People’s Poet Laureate, and Terrance Hayes winner of the 2019 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. The awards are sponsored and ...
May 04 2019: Novelist Ben Dolnick waxes lyrical on the benefits or ditching Netflix for a novel. And not just because a novelist is telling you to:
One night a couple of summers ago, the power went out and, unable to watch Netflix or engage in my customary internet fugue, I lit a...
May 02 2019: Cengage and McGraw-Hill, two of the largest academic publishers remaining, have agreed to a merger on equal terms that is expected to close by early 2020, the companies announced yesterday.
May 02 2019: Baker & Taylor has made it official: it is leaving the wholesale retail book market. The move was hinted at when it became public late last year that the company was in talks to sell its retail operations to Ingram and then in the departure over the last few months of ...
May 02 2019: The New York Times takes on the tricky topic of YA authors being censored by readers within their own communities--focusing in particular on 26 year-old Amélie Wen Zhao who asked her publisher, Delacorte, to withdraw her debut novel, Blood Heir, six months before ...
Apr 30 2019: "I have a strategy of reading children’s books to gain knowledge. I’ve found that in an adult reference book, if it’s not a subject I’m interested in, I just can’t get into it. I was thinking, what is the place in the library I can go to to get books tailored to make ...
Apr 28 2019: The political corruption scandal roiling Baltimore, leading to an FBI raid of Mayor Catherine Pugh’s house Thursday morning, all began with a children’s book.
Pugh, who has been serving as the city’s mayor since 2016, is at the center of a controversy that started ...
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