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10 Banned Books Your Kids Should Be Reading
1 month, 1 week ago

10 Banned Books Your Kids Should Be Reading

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Author Samira Ahmed’s latest young-adult novel, “This Book Won’t Burn,” is nothing if not timely. Three years ago, Ahmed had a conversation with an English teacher about her own frequently banned book, “Internment.” “She taught in a small, rural, mostly white school district and wanted to bring ‘Internment’ into her lit circles in her high school classroom,” …

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Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai - “Writing about the Vietnam war took a toll on me”
1 year, 5 months ago

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai - “Writing about the Vietnam war took a toll on me”

Hindustan Times  

Dust Child, award-winning Vietnamese poet and novelist Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s powerful second novel, is set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai Phan Quế Mai drew inspiration for Dust Child — which has been labelled best book of the year by Reader’s Digest, Cosmopolitan and Book Riot — from her childhood …

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'Rajiv Gandhi banned my book because of Muslim votes', Rushdie had said in a 1998 letter
2 years, 4 months ago

'Rajiv Gandhi banned my book because of Muslim votes', Rushdie had said in a 1998 letter

Firstpost  

In an open letter, which appeared in New York Times, dated 19 October 1998, he wrote, ‘I deeply resent my book being used as a political football; what should matter to you… is that you come out of this looking not only Philistine and anti-democratic but opportunistic’ New Delhi: Following the controversy over British author Salman Rushdie’s book Satanic Verse …

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Anindita Ghose in conversation with Vauhini Vara
2 years, 8 months ago

Anindita Ghose in conversation with Vauhini Vara

The Hindu  

A Dalit boy born to a family of coconut farmers in 1950s’ India “possessing not even a name” is named King. The Immortal King Rao is Canadian-born American journalist Vauhini Vara’s much-anticipated debut novel. Thirteen years in the making, it draws heavily from Vauhini’s career as a tech reporter for The Wall Street Journal — she inaugurated the paper’s Facebook …

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How L.A.’s writers spent their two-year pandemic
2 years, 9 months ago

How L.A.’s writers spent their two-year pandemic

LA Times  

This article has been updated to include a greater diversity of voices among writers, and to acknowledge the disproportionately grave impact of the COVID pandemic on the lives of Latinx people in Los Angeles. Los Feliz mystery writer Charles Finch put fiction aside to write his 2021 memoir, “What Just Happened: Notes From a Long Year.” Highland Park journalists Geoff …

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For M Mukundan, Delhi’s scattered spaces are inspiration
3 years, 2 months ago

For M Mukundan, Delhi’s scattered spaces are inspiration

Live Mint  

I was born and raised in a village called Mayyazhi, also known as Mahé, in Puducherry. The space of this novel suggested itself from the locales occupied by such residents of Delhi. When the desire to write about hunger burgeoned in me, the first thing that came to my mind was the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun’s novel, Hunger. The German …

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How do we preserve social order and institutions when something so unexpected happens?
4 years, 9 months ago

How do we preserve social order and institutions when something so unexpected happens?

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It began with a simple question from filmmaker Ridley Scott, who had read Cormac McCarthy’s …

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