The new memoir in essays Sex With a Brain Injury from Annie Liontas, author of the novel Let Me Explain You, is a highly formally and thematically risky work of nonfiction exploring traumatic brain injury (TBI), queerness, addiction, mass incarceration, and chronic illness. Weaving “history,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-01-16 12:00:00 UTC ]
Among the organizations receiving funding are Freedom Reads and the New York Public Library. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
News and Events In this second episode of WLT Book Buzz, Laura Hernandez & Bunmi Ishola cover 42 books that connect with history. Find out what they read this summer and why these books should be on your shelf. Partition, World War II, the Tulsa Race... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-08-04 15:40:39 UTC ]
Brittany Barnett reveals the ways both crime and punishment disrupt families and intimate relationships. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-10-16 12:00:00 UTC ]
A list of recommended titles focused on the issues surrounding white supremacy and institutional racism, police brutality, mass incarceration, and anti-racist political activism. The post An Anti-Racist Reading List appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2020-06-04 10:00:41 UTC ]
Since 1988, the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism has been shining a light on journalists who call attention to vital current events or societal issues. The titles up for consideration this year tackle domestic violence, sexual harassment, mass... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-21 20:39:14 UTC ]