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A six-month investigation carried out by the Index on Censorship revealed that 28 out of 53 librarians surveyed - 53% - reported being asked to remove books. In over half of these cases, the books were taken off the shelves. One school librarian who took part in the study was allegedly instructed to remove all books with LGBTQ+ themes following a single complaint from one parent about a specific book. Notable titles that have faced complaints include "This Book Is Gay" by Juno Dawson, "Julián is a Mermaid" by Jessica Love, and "ABC Pride" by Louie Stowell, Elly Barnes, and Amy Phelps. Several ...
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For many, the lettuce is a leafy vegetable that serves as the basis for a healthy salad or complements a tasty sandwich. For former British Prime Minister Liz Truss, it’s the nightmarish ‘greenspiration’ she can’t seem to shake. And she showed to what extent the leafy green still gets her riled up, by storming off stage after a banner featuring a lettuce appeared, with the words “I crashed the economy.” She was on stage in Beccles, Suffolk, as part of her book tour. The UK’s shortest serving PM released her ominously-titled book “Ten Years to Save the West: Lessons From The Only Conservative I...
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Pope Francis has written a letter in which he advises that reading novels and poems should be encouraged in the training of future priests. The head of the Catholic church cites authors like C.S. Lewis (“The Chronicles of Narnia”) and Marcel Proust (“In Search of Lost Time”) alongside poets like Paul Celan, Jorge Luis Borges and T.S. Eliot in the letter, “On the Role of Literature in Formation”, which was written on 17 July and published in various languages on Sunday. Pope Francis writes that literature is “listening to another person’s voice” and that while it is often considered unnecessary...
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Following a competitive auction, Universal Pictures obtained the movie rights to Britney Spears' best-selling memoir "The Woman in Me", which has sold over 2.5 million copies since its release last October. The rights deal reportedly received interest from Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt’s Plan B, Sony, Warner Bros, Fox, Disney and Netflix. Marc Platt, the producer behind Wicked and La La Land, will produce the film, with Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians, In the Heights) set to direct. Spears herself celebrated the news on X, tweeting, “Excited to share with my fans that I’ve been working on a secret...
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The longlist for this year’s Booker Prize for Fiction was announced this week, with a number of European authors among the 13-strong class of 2024. As well as including works by a Dutch and a Native American writer for the first time – Yael van der Wouden’s "The Safekeep" and Tommy Orange’s "Wandering Stars", respectively – the selection is notable, judges and critics say, for its variety. “There is no single register here,” wrote Edmund de Waal, the chair of judges, in a statement accompanying the list. “We need fiction to do different things – to renew us, give solace, to take us away from o...
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Elena Ferrante is one of the most acclaimed authors in the world. Yet, interviews with her are nearly impossible to find, as she (or he or they) maintains an extremely low-key profile to keep her identity secret. To this day, readers do not know who Ferrante truly is. What they do know, however, is that she is making history. “In the area where narcissism is overwhelmingly present, Elena Ferrante has decided to erase her ego,” Enrica Ferrara, scholar in Italian literature at Trinity College Dublin and novelist tells Euronews Culture about the Italian writer Ferrante. Earlier this month, The Ne...
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Edna O'Brien, Ireland's literary pride whose fearless novels about women’s struggles in her homeland scandalised the nation, has died aged 93. Her debut novel “The Country Girls” was banned in Ireland but O’Brien later gained international acclaim as a storyteller and iconoclast that found her welcomed everywhere from Dublin to the White House. O'Brien died Saturday after a long illness, according to a statement by her publisher Faber and the literary agency PFD. “A defiant and courageous spirit, Edna constantly strove to break new artistic ground, to write truthfully, from a place of deep fee...
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Lisa Jewell and Rebecca Yarros were the big winners at the TikTok Book Awards for the UK and Ireland this year, in a ceremony held at the Sea Containers Hotel on the South Bank. 56-year-old writer Jewell won Book of the Year (UK & Ireland) for her 21st novel ‘None of This is True’. The bestseller crime novel follows a podcaster who gets entangled in the dark complex life of a woman she agrees to interview. BookTok influencers: Revolutionising reading or bringing about "the end of the world"?#BookTok decides: TikTok launches its first ever Book AwardsJewell, who has been publishing novels since...
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Ismail Kadare, who had long been mentioned as a possible contender for the Nobel Literature Prize, died at the age of 88 after being rushed to a hospital in Tirana, his publishing editor said on Monday. A nurse at the hospital, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorised to talk to the press, said the renowned author had suffered a cardiac arrest. “Albania and Albanians lost their genius of letters, their spiritual emancipator, the Balkans (lost) the poet of its myths, Europe and the world (lost) one of the most renowned representatives of modern literature,” Albanian Pr...
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New York (AFP) - The original watercolor illustration for the first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" -- the book that introduced the world to the young bespectacled wizard -- sold for $1.9 million on Wednesday. The artwork becomes "the most valuable Harry Potter item ever sold at auction," auction house Sotheby's said in a statement. "The illustration was chased by four bidders on the phone and online for nearly ten minutes before selling to applause." The work by Thomas Taylor, who was just 23 years old in 1997 when he painted the iconic image of the young boy with the l...
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