Iceland has almost no homicides, yet crime fiction is its favourite literary genre – that means writers face a challenge: making murder feel believable
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A new book details Israel’s destruction of Palestinian life in Gaza
31 votes -
Finland's libraries are increasingly being valued not by how many books they lend, but how they help societies function
21 votes -
Neomercantilism: an interview with Prof. Eric Helleiner on his book, "The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History"
6 votes -
Why Swedish schools are bringing back books
15 votes -
A nationwide LGBTQ+ book ban bill for public schools has been introduced in the US House of Representatives
33 votes -
Finland's poetic masterpiece, the Kalevala, has roots in two cultures and two countries
9 votes -
Norway's approach to getting kids reading has much to teach us this year – from government support, to innovation with libraries themselves
13 votes -
Danish government has announced it will abolish a 25% sales tax on books, in an effort to combat a "reading crisis"
29 votes -
Why is the right so fascinated with fantasy literature?
24 votes -
China cracks down on women who write gay erotica
33 votes -
That joke isn't funny any more
29 votes -
Book publishers see surging interest in the US Constitution and print new editions
10 votes -
Romance author Ali Hazelwood cancels UK tours over doubt she could 'safely' return to US
23 votes -
Border-straddling library raises $140K for renovations after US limits Canadian access
19 votes -
She challenges one school book a week. She says she’ll never stop. (2023)
14 votes -
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
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In the US, multi-level barrage of book bans is ‘unprecedented’, says PEN America
15 votes -
Patrick Radden Keefe: Author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain talks about journalism career, upcoming TV series, and covering Donald Trump as a journalist
6 votes -
“Solidarity is the only thing that can save us”: an interview with Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix
10 votes -
The overlooked lesson of Octavia Butler's "The Parable of the Sower"
13 votes -
The boy who kicked the hornets' nest – Stieg Larsson's double life as an anti-far right activist in Sweden
13 votes -
Jessica Valenti (Abortion, Every Day) has a book coming out next week
5 votes -
It’s official: These thirteen books are now banned from all public schools in Utah
48 votes -
Review: The Real North Korea, by Andrei Lankov
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Inside the two-year fight to bring charges against school librarians in Granbury, Texas
20 votes -
Queer Liberation Library offers free LGBTQ books in response to wave of US school bans
21 votes -
The Controversialist: Marty Peretz and the travails of American liberalism
3 votes -
Book ban fight in Nevada would create LGBTQ section of libraries
9 votes -
Idaho libraries must move materials deemed harmful to children, or face lawsuits, under new law
24 votes -
Why ban books when you can ban book awards? Suburban Illinois district cancels youth chosen Caudill Awards.
30 votes -
US libraries struggle to afford the demand for e-books and seek new state laws in fight with publishers
46 votes -
Police bodycam shows sheriff hunting for 'obscene' books at library
54 votes -
Ben Shapiro's book is beyond disturbing - True Allegiance review
27 votes -
Seismic City by Joanna Dyl: an economic class and political history of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
5 votes -
Masha Gessen’s Hannah Arendt Prize has been canceled because of their essay on Gaza
22 votes -
The cost to librarians and libraries from the US culture wars
22 votes -
US District Judge blocks Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over ‘harmful’ materials
50 votes -
US school librarians vilified as the 'arm of Satan' in book-banning wars
8 votes -
Katrín Jakobsdóttir, crime fiction fan and Iceland's Prime Minister, has published her first thriller novel with her close friend and bestselling author Ragnar Jónasson
4 votes -
The Billionaire’s Bard: On the rationalist fictions of Neal Stephenson
9 votes -
Furries are leading the war against a book-banning Mississippi Mayor
14 votes -
‘I think we should throw those books in a fire’: Movement builds on right to target books
17 votes -
Washington’s secret to the perfect Zoom bookshelf? Buy it wholesale.
18 votes -
“Would you be willing to ask Siri how to assassinate Donald Trump?” - excerpt from Shelter in Place
6 votes -
Mary Trump’s book accuses the US President of embracing "cheating as a way of life"
16 votes -
We’re not polarized enough: Ezra Klein’s flawed diagnosis of the divisions in American politics
5 votes -
Let's be comrades: In her book "Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging", American political theorist Jodi Dean wants us to give the word "comrade" another try
3 votes -
Does “The Case Against Socialism” hold up? It does not. A brief look at Rand Paul’s new book.
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The GOP is the problem. Is ‘human identity politics’ the solution? (Book review of Ezra Klein’s 'Why We’re Polarized')
9 votes