A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for youngsters and who sought their removal from youth shelves will be paid $700,000 after settling a lawsuit. Terri Lesley was fired as the library system director in northeastern Wyoming’s Campbell County in 2023, two …
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Can Xue, László Krasznahorkai, Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are among the authors most likely to win this year’s Nobel prize in literature, according to the bookies. Chinese avant garde author Can Xue, 72, and postmodern Hungarian author Krasznahorkai, 71, are tied as Ladbrokes’ favourite to win, both with odds of 10/1. Can Xue was also the favourite …
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S ince debuting in 1991 with a feature on Main Source’s “Live at the Barbeque,” Nas has been intent on amplifying New York hip-hop. His first full-length album, Illmatic, was an evolution in hip-hop lyricism, and his top-tier penmanship has powered a catalog of 17 solo albums. He’s always paid respect to pioneers, with songs like 2007’s “Where Are They …
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The most commonly banned books in U.S. schools include LGBTQ titles, international bestsellers, teen romantasy novels and a 1962 classic, according to a new report that compares modern-day censorship to Cold War-era McCarthyism. More than 6,800 book bans were enacted during the 2024-25 school year in 87 public school districts across 23 states, according to a report released Wednesday by …
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Cinder House by Freya Marske (Tordotcom, October 7) The author of the Last Binding trilogy and Swordcrossed returns with this Cinderella retelling. It’s a queer Gothic romance about the ghost of a murdered girl trapped in her father’s house, who makes a bargain to be almost-alive and free for three nights. Spoiler: three nights won’t be enough. Hole in the …
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In recent days, bookish pockets of TikTok and Instagram have been talking about one thing only. “I’ve been looking forward to this day more than I look forward to my wedding day,” says one creator, holding up to the camera a copy of the 1,040-page novel that was Penguin’s most pre-ordered debut of the year and has already netted a …
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Following its world premiere today at the New York Film Festival, the question must be asked: Will Daniel Day-Lewis in Anemone possibly enter the most rarefied territory at the Oscars an actor has ever gone? Playing a man coming from a violent past and coming to terms with his own life and estranged family relationships, Day-Lewis gets yet another role …
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Sign up for Big Think Books A dedicated space for exploring the books and ideas that shape our world. Around the turn of the 19th century, a Viennese physician named Franz Joseph Gall proposed a new, and controversial, hypothesis about the human brain. Even as a child, Gall was fascinated by the brain and its connection with people’s personalities, and …
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WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Connelly Early was racing through the Denver airport trying to catch a tight connection when he got the news he would make his first major league start Tuesday night against the Athletics. About 24 hours later, the 23-year-old lefty put his name in the Red Sox record books. Early’s mad dash out west that included two …
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