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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns condemns proposed Florida bill

Mar 10 2023: Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has joined a rising chorus of condemnation against a proposed Florida bill that seeks to muzzle intellectual freedom in colleges and universities.

House Bill 999 is a sly hodgepodge of contradictory dictums designed to bleach the study...

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Bryant & May novelist Christopher Fowler has died aged 69

Mar 07 2023: Christopher Fowler has died at the age of 69, having been diagnosed with cancer three years ago.

Fowler was best known for his Bryant & May thrillers, featuring the veteran detectives solving unusual crimes in London from the second world war to the present day. The ...

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Book banning: stores, authors and communities: what can we do?

Feb 28 2023: "What was once an occasional distraction and disruption has increasingly become a daily occurrence," said Ray Daniels, the American Booksellers Association (ABA) chief communications officer, at the outset of the Winter Institute session "Book Banning: Stores, Authors ...

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The exuberant diversity of Ukrainian literature

Feb 28 2023: Writing in The Millions, Timothy Walsh explores the diversity of Ukrainian literature from Anton Chekhov, Joseph Conrad and Nicolai Gogol to Isaac Babel, Sholem Aleichem, Mikhail Bulgakov and Vasily Grossman; and then to the modern day:

When Russia invaded Ukraine ...

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No plans for changes to Roald Dahl's books in US or Europe

Feb 23 2023: The news last week that editions of Roald Dahl’s body of work issued by U.K. publisher Puffin Books were being edited to remove potentially offensive words including “fat,” “crazy," and “mad,” rewriting character descriptions, and adding completely new sentences, caused...

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JK Rowling tells of fear former husband would burn Harry Potter manuscript

Feb 22 2023: The Harry Potter author JK Rowling has spoken about the abuse she suffered at the hands of her former husband, saying he tried to lock away the unpublished manuscript of the series’ first book to stop her leaving him.

Speaking on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling, a ...

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Roald Dahl rewrites: edited language in books criticized as ‘absurd censorship’

Feb 20 2023: Critics are accusing the British publisher of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s books of censorship after it removed colourful language from works such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda to make them more acceptable to modern readers.

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HarperCollins union ratifies new contract

Feb 17 2023: After three months on strike, unionized HarperCollins employees will return to work on February 21 after voting 194-10 to ratify a labor agreement with the publisher that includes a higher minimum salary and new benefits.

“We are pleased that the agreement was ...

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