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Gird your loins. We're about to get a lot of really bad, state-sponsored art.

Gird your loins. We're about to get a lot of really bad, state-sponsored art.

By Brittany Allen | February 10, 2025

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By Brittany Allen | February 4, 2025

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The Giller Prize has (finally) cut ties with Scotiabank.

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All the literary adaptations at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

All the literary adaptations at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

By Brittany Allen | February 3, 2025

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Here are the finalists for the second annual Inside Prize.

By Brittany Allen | January 31, 2025

Here are the finalists for the 2025 Gotham Book Prize. 

Here are the finalists for the 2025 Gotham Book Prize. 

By Brittany Allen | January 31, 2025

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Stuck in a reading rut? Sign up for the annual Free Black Women's Library Reading Challenge.

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At this year's MLA convention, protestors put Palestine on the docket.

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You can now find Jhumpa Lahiri's first drafts at the New York Public Library.

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Move over, Alexandria: A new exhibit features lost, imagined, and totally fake books.

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