Year: 2023

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Winnie the Pooh and Nightmares Too!

Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Christopher Robin and other denizens of the Hundred Acre Wood will be back on the big screen this month. Just don’t expect delightful animation, whimsical songs or heartwarming themes of young innocence and imagination. The new movie is spectacularly unsuitable for children: It’s a gore-splattered, live-action sequel out of a nightmare, featuring a terrifying pair of psychopaths who commit gruesome murders. The villains? Pooh and Piglet themselves. Read more

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What Readers Hate Most in Books

A few weeks ago, I asked readers of our Book Club newsletter to describe the things that most annoy them in books. The responses were a tsunami of bile. Apparently, book lovers have been storing up their pet peeves in the cellar for years, just waiting for someone to ask. Hundreds and hundreds of people responded, exceeding my wildest dreams. Read more

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Publishing Company Will Offer Free Black History E-Books

A Chicago-based publishing house will offer free e-books focused on Black history after the College Board revised its Advanced Placement African American studies course earlier this month. And Haymarket Books has Florida, specifically, in its sights. The College Board’s revisions came after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) refused to allow the class in Florida high schools. Read more

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Gillian Anderson Asks Women to Send Her Their Sexual Fantasies

Anderson, who plays forthright sex therapist Jean Milburn in the blockbuster Netflix series “Sex Education,” has posted a video on Instagram and explained that she’s “launching a major exploration of women and sex.” Seated on a burgundy armchair, the 54-year-old actress appeared relaxed as she asked women to send her their “most personal desires” for a book she said she is “curating.” Read more

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Bullying Librarians Is for Know-Nothings

Right-wing activists have taken over school boards across the country, banning books on topics from slavery to the Holocaust, rejecting courses like AP African American Studies, and prohibiting teachers from discussing gender identity in the classroom. Now, in a comically transparent escalation of this anti-intellectual crusade, they are targeting libraries. Worse, they’ve embraced a characteristically cruel approach to doing so: bullying librarians. Read more

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Julie Otsuka, Ed Yong Win ALA’s 2023 Carnegie Medals

The American Library Association has announced that The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka (Knopf) has won the American Library Association’s 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, while An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong (Random House) took home the medal for nonfiction. Read more

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