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Review: Hagith Sivan on Women and the Religion of Ancient Israel
A new study reveals a tradition of recognizing women's religious agency in ancient Judaism that was doomed to disappear with the establishment of…
Jun 24
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Notebook: Local Control (Part II)
by Ann Kjellberg, editor School library book bans confront us with the enigma: how to respond when democracy is used to limit our freedoms?
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Jun 23
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Notebook: Local Control (Part I)
by Ann Kjellberg, editor Of school library book bans, Shreya Mehta, a senior at Hanford High School in Eastern Washington State, told a House Oversight…
Ann Kjellberg
Jun 21
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Review: Sarah Kerr on ”Bad Mexicans”
“Bad Mexicans” chronicles a group early twentieth-century Mexican rebels who, from outposts in Texas, LA, St. Louis, and beyond, harassed Mexico’s…
Jun 14
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Review: David Leavitt on Andrew Holleran
Andrew Holleran’s splendid new novel is one of the best books yet about a part of the world as famous for growing old as for profusive growth.
Jun 3
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Diary: Noga Arikha, Stories and Neurology
Without memory, we have no sense of time or identity, and we build memory with stories. Storytelling, self, and brain science.
May 31
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Review: Ange Mlinko, Poets Translating
The long history of poetry in the British Isles ensures a wealth of Anglo-Saxon and Gaelic works to bring up to date, and translation from Latin and…
Ann Kjellberg
May 27
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Diary: Kafka Argues with His Publishers
Kafka to Kurt Wolff: “It struck me that Starke, as an illustrator, might want to draw the insect itself. Not that, please not that! I do not want to…
Ann Kjellberg
May 24
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Review: Victoria Uren on the “Lin Lan” Chinese fairy tales
The fairy tales compiled by eager young literary types in Shanghai in the twenties, under the editorship of the fictional Lady Lin Lan, were part of a…
Ann Kjellberg
May 19
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Notebook: Freedom and Kindness
by Ann Kjellberg, editor If we're going to stop engaging with cultures that are tainted by brutality, pretty soon we're not going have much left. How we…
May 11
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Diary: Jeff Deutsch on Organizing Books, i.e., Ordaining the Universe
How a bookseller orders their collection dictates the logic and serendipities of a bookstore’s unique browse, and all classifications result in…
Ann Kjellberg
May 5
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Review: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc on “the original queens of stand-up”
Women pioneers of stand-up had to work the obvious fact of their being women into the act or around the act or through a character or through multiple…
Ann Kjellberg
Apr 22
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