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I left my baby to write this. How do artists balance creativity and the ache for their child?

All writers and painters who are mothers must tread a heroic path. In an ideal world, we wouldn’t have to, says the Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian - UK

Princeton University plans Toni Morrison tribute in 2023

A monthslong Toni Morrison tribute at Princeton University will range from music created and performed by Grammy-winning vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant to a spring lecture series to a three-day symposium

The Independent UK

Ruth Bader Ginsburg honoured with 2023 postage stamp

The USPS will release the new stamp in 2023

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Commentary: Clinging to old classics can go hand in hand with banning books

Too often, we forget that fights about what we shouldn’t read are also battles over what we should read. And that every time someone attempts to ban Toni Morrison or Ta-Nehisi Coates, they’re also trying to corral our kids back to Hawthorne and Hemingway, Dante and Dickens.

Los Angeles Times

The new films and shows out on Netflix this weekend - October 14

Netflix is adding some great new content over the weekend

Manchester Evening News

Kanye may not like books, but hip-hop fosters a love of literature

When Ye – the artist formerly known as Kanye West – stated during a recent podcast that he doesn’t read books, some people questioned whether he was sending the wrong message to children.

The Conversation

How Removing Toni Morrison's Beloved From Curriculum Helped Glenn Youngkin Win in Virginia

Virginia lawmakers passed a bill allowing parents to opt out of certain lessons, which was vetoed by then-Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

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GOP anti-CRT push threatens AP classes

Teachers across the country are teaching in fear

Salon

Texas school district pulls the Bible, The Bluest Eye and other books from library

School board in Dallas-Fort Worth area requires reviewing books facing challenges from parents

The Guardian - US

Keller school officials order 41 books — including the Bible and an Anne Frank adaptation — off of library shelves

A new policy scraps community recommendations from last fall that some books that had been questioned should remain on shelves.

The Texas Tribune

Namwali Serpell: ‘I find uncertainty compelling in literature’

The award-winning Zambia-born writer on her reading habits, being emboldened by Toni Morrison, and her belief that books aren’t about self-improvement, but engagement

The Guardian - UK

Recitatif by Toni Morrison audiobook review – an experiment in racial bias

Actor Bahni Turpin narrates this story about the chance encounters between two girls from different races who first meet as roommates in an orphanage

The Guardian - UK

Michael Hiltzik: Book-banning is on the rise, as part of the far-right's assault on democracy

Attacks on books occupy a special place among the signposts of philistinism and anti-democratic suppression.

Los Angeles Times

Jackie Kay on Jamaica Kincaid: ‘I’ve never read anyone like her’

The Scottish poet’s tribute to the Antiguan-American author’s ‘fearless’ coming-of-age novel Annie John

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Unless Democrats start fighting like they mean it, they’re going to lose Congress

We are engaged in an existential battle over the identity of this nation. The Biden administration’s tepid midterm strategy is failing

The Conversation

Friday essay: writing poems across oceans, cultures and emails – John Kinsella on creative collaboration

My maternal grandfather was an artist who was a sign-writer. On commission, and under the eye of the public, he painted the giant Queen Elizabeth for the 1954 ‘Royal Visit’ and the giant Captain Cook (with map of ‘New Holland’) for the 200th ‘celebrations’. These lines, read on their own,…

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How one book influencer championing Black authors is changing publishing

Milwaukee-based book influencer Cree Myles curates an account for Penguin Random House dedicated to celebrating Black writers.

The Guardian - US

‘Unparalleled in intensity’ – 1,500 book bans in US school districts.

Past nine months have seen censorship effort ‘unparalleled in its intensity’, with books on race and LGBTQ issues singled out

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An emerging opera singer faces her past in new novel by Dallas author Rosalyn Story

DALLAS — Rosalyn Story is a renaissance woman. In addition to performing in the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra for over 30 years, she has worked as a freelance journalist and has written several books.

Wales Online

Jane Austen replaced on literature course by American author Toni Morrison to 'decolonise' curriculum

American Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winner author takes her place

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: How Toni Morrison’s use of the prefix ‘re-’ captures our complicated racial history

On March 10, as part of a wave of similar moves by states across the country, the Florida legislature passed what supporters are calling the “Stop WOKE Act,” a bill limiting what workplaces and schools can teach about race and identity, with special emphasis on discussions that could cause others…

The Independent UK

Poet Sonia Sanchez to receive Edwin MacDowell Medal

The poet, activist and educator Sonia Sanchez is this year’s winner of the Edward MacDowell Medal, a lifetime achievement honor started in 1960 and previously given to Robert Frost, Toni Morrison and Stephen Sondheim among others

The Guardian - US

Toni Morrison novel The Bluest Eye off banned list in St Louis schools

Nobel laureate’s classic debut was removed from libraries but backlash and lawsuits prompted vote to restore

Tribune News Service

An elegant, timely test for readers from Toni Morrison

"Recitatif: A Story" by Toni Morrison, with an introduction by Zadie Smith; Alfred A. Knopf (40 pages, $16)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Tony Messenger: Banning Toni Morrison book only proves her point about the discomfort of language

Every election cycle, it seems, there is a new way to refer to a group of voters who seem to have all the juice. These are the voters whom elected officials are targeting to put them over the top in close races.

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