The author’s latest book examines the tension between religious and political conservatives and secular popular artists and entertainers in the 1980s. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Monty Python, blasphemers: When the culture wars came for a little film called Life of Brian. | Lit Hub Film & TV “Moderation did not win the public’s favor.” How hot beverages became all the rage in 18th-century Britain. | Lit Hub History Debbie Urbanski urges novelists to think about AI... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-12-08 11:30:19 UTC ]
HarperCollins buys world rights to a collection of journals and lyrics by Amy Winehouse, NBCC winner Isaac Butler sells a “military history of the first decade in the culture wars” to Bloomsbury, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-04-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
As book banning efforts, assaults upon women’s autonomy, and more intensify, both old-school feminist bookstores and new intersectional feminist shops are drawing customers seeking a safe space and solace in books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-03-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
More important than culture-war noise are the multiple threats to British children learning to love books of any kindBack in the days when everything took place on Zooms and Teams, I was part of a World Book Day event that was livestreamed from the set of the hit musical Matlida. The set is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-03-02 11:42:37 UTC ]
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie has been criticized, and lauded, as a parable of the welfare state. Both sides have it wrong. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2020-02-28 16:14:35 UTC ]