University presses hold the line as book bans soar
There were 1,269 demands to censor library books and materials in 2022, up 813 percent in two years. University presses are unlikely players in the controversy.
Five things to know about the new Rodney’s when Harvard Square bookseller opens Friday
Having Raven Used Books replaced by Rodney’s Bookstore as of Friday means only a couple of weeks will have passed between booksellers on Church Street. But there changes and details shoppers may want to know.
At a Pink Pages fundraiser against breast cancer, famed authors’ attention drifts to politics as well
Nearly $290,000 was donated to the Hoffman Breast Center through the year’s Pink Pages event with authors including Alice Hoffman and Anne Leary.
For the ’23 Pink Pages fundraiser, Alice Hoffman unites Diamant, Picoult and more famed authors
The novelist and Anita Diamant, Lisa Genova, Ann Leary, Elinor Lipman, Jodi Picoult, Laura Zigman and Hank Phillippi Ryan raise money Monday for The Hoffman Breast Center at Cambridge’s Mount Auburn Hospital.
Colorful ‘Streets of Newtowne’ provides history for the young with voices other texts leave out
With Suzanne Blier’s critical outlook on history, lovely illustrations and key questions sprinkled in, “The Streets of Newtowne” is worth reading to young children who are ready to learn more about Cambridge history – all of it.
In ‘Ends of Freedom,’ Mark Paul shares a vision for American economy that works for everybody
These aren’t radical visions that we need to look to other countries for, Rutgers economist Mark Paul says, but in many instances just an extension of long fights for freedom here in America that were proposed decades ago.
Secrets of the West, and a poet’s own family, unearthed in Carr’s ‘Mud, Blood, and Ghosts’
Poet Julie Carr stretched with the nonfiction “Mud, Blood, and Ghosts,” about populism, spiritualism and historical horrors such as eugenics and Native removal.
Quinn Slobodian’s ‘Crack-Up Capitalism’ looks at libertarians’ impulse to see our structures burn
An intellectual history of radical libertarians and the danger of ultracapitalism has been welcomed even by Great Britain’s former chancellor of the exchequer.
Jane Roper had to cut jokes (and the revenge sex) to make ‘The Society of Shame’ this funny
A love for chaos translates into Jane Roper’s newest novel, “The Society of Shame” – the story of a woman who comes home to find her house on fire, her husband in his underpants and his mistress passed out nearby,
In ‘Story & Bone’ poems, Deborah Leipziger writes on matters of home and heritage
The co-founder of the New England Jewish Poetry Festival and online magazine Soul-Lit prepares for an April appearance in Cambridge for Poetry Month.
