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New on Book Post: Sarah Ruden on the “mysterious life” of Emily Brontë as mapped in a new biography by Deborah Lutz. The Dark Night paints the details of its subject “moving through the world” with lushly researched detail.
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New on Book Post: the incomparable Joy Williams on the “cold and alluring world” of Jón Kallman Stefánsson.
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This dumb Common Core requirement imposed by David Coleman with no research backing helped drive out real literary works from the curriculum as many of us pointed out at the time
In an appearance before a press-rights group in New York this evening, New York Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger had some pointed words for his peers atop U.S. media organizations.
New on Book Post: Ann Kjellberg on the “lost art” of the alt-weekly and how they fostered awareness and purveyed truth.
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New on Book Post → Roland Allen reviews Shamil Jeppie’s Writing Timbuktu—a literary history of Timbuktu and its stories of communal learning and scholarly traditions, told with “lively evocation.”
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@PrincetonUPress
What does it mean to write a whole life?
New on Book Post: Clare Carlisle reflects on the form of biography and its desire to show the “truth of a life.”
Read here → https://t.co/RWNVwIyghS
New on Book Post: Abby Rosebrock on Nancy Lemann’s long-overdue return. Read about her narrators’ “humane” and “razor-sharp” chronicling of chaos → https://t.co/5YSbyLSeCa
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The shortlist for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been revealed. Six authors are in the running for the award, which comes with a cash prize of about $40,500. The winner will be revealed at an event in London on June 11. @WomensPrize https://t.co/KIJOrTjpcm
This post was influenced by the recent @MorganLibrary exhibition, “Sing a New Song: The Psalms in Medieval Art and Life,” and its accompanying, handsomely illustrated monograph.
“To consider the psalms and their centrality to Christianity is to consider from a different angle the centrality of lyric poetry to our sense of ourselves as individuals, each harboring a world of feeling that is simultaneously universal.” -Ange Mlinko
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