A vigorous examination of ‘Mr. NAACP,’ who passed as White

A. J. Baime recounts the extraordinary life of the NAACP's Walter White who wrote late in life: “I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me.” Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'

[ The Washington Post | 2022-03-26 14:14:55 UTC ]
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Black & White acquires first book from GBBO winner Peter Sawkins

Black & White will publish the first book from "Great British Bake Off" 2020 winner Peter Sawkins.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-25 00:03:12 UTC ]
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Isabel Allende isn't passing the feminist torch — she's sharing it

The bestselling novelist, subject of an upcoming HBO Max biopic and author of the new memoir 'The Soul of a Woman' discusses aging, feminism and home. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-02-24 17:00:12 UTC ]
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Springer Nature: A White Paper on Researchers and Gold Open Access

Results of a survey of almost 1,400 ResearchGate members who had interacted with Springer Nature publications form the basis of this paper. The post Springer Nature: A White Paper on Researchers and Gold Open Access appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-02-22 02:20:56 UTC ]
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Melvin Burgess | 'Like a lot of white folks, I’ve been wary of writing Black characters'

Melvin Burgess’ Three Bullets, which interrogates themes of brainwashing and the far-right, will be released this summer alongside a 25th-anniversary edition of the author’s pioneering YA novel Junk.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-11 21:15:24 UTC ]
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Book Review: ‘Under a White Sky,’ by Elizabeth Kolbert

In “Under a White Sky,” the Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert meets people who are trying to reverse the course of man-made environmental disaster. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2021-02-10 10:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Mike Nichols: A Life’ is a shrewd, in-depth examination of the elusive man behind the polished facade

Mark Harris’s portrait of director Mike Nichols is a pleasure to read and a model biography. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-02-03 13:00:00 UTC ]
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A Debut Novel Examines the Alluring Trap of Our Online Personas

“Fake Accounts,” Lauren Oyler’s debut novel, considers how social media has reconfigured our behavior, relationships and how we think of ourselves. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2021-02-01 10:00:02 UTC ]
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Books Are Back in the White House — And One of Them Is by Angie Thomas

The best-selling author just found out that her debut novel is soon to be on the first lady’s bedside table. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2021-01-28 10:00:04 UTC ]
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The Roar of the Wronged: Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger, by Yahia Lababidi

Culture A still image from the film White Tiger (Netflix, 2021). After watching White Tiger, a writer contemplates the film alongside revolution in Egypt, Black Lives Matter protests, the film Parasite, and literary “complicated works of... Continue reading at World Literature Today

[ World Literature Today | 2021-01-27 20:33:27 UTC ]
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White Rabbit hits the right note with two from Dylan Jones

White Rabbit publisher Lee Brackstone has acquired world rights to two new books by Dylan Jones, through Jonny Geller at the Curtis Brown Group.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-25 10:46:54 UTC ]
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Mclaughlin, Scott and Thomas made editors at White Review

Rosanna Mclaughlin, Izabella Scott and Skye Arundhati Thomas have been confirmed as the new editors of literary magazine the White Review.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-20 09:34:08 UTC ]
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Kevin Barry’s ‘That Old Country Music’ examines the brutal bliss of romantic love

The story collection arrives on the heels of Barry’s superb 2019 novel, “Night Boat to Tangier.” Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-01-17 06:54:27 UTC ]
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Black & White picks up two more from Maskame

Black & White Publishing has acquired Estelle Maskame’s seventh YA novel, Becoming Mila, to be published on the 6th May 2021 as the first book in a two-part series.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-13 09:24:34 UTC ]
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Melania Trump’s post-White House book might not be a memoir after all, which is fine.

For a while, Melania Trump has teased that she might write a book after the Trump family exits the White House. I, like many, had mixed feelings. On one hand, it’d be interesting to see the Trump administration from the point of the view of the famously sullen First Lady; but on the other hand,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-12-10 18:18:04 UTC ]
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A feminist critiques movies by and about White guys — but why?

Lindy West rewatches mediocre Hollywood blockbusters and, surprise, finds them lacking. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-04 13:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Red, White and Blue’ subject Leroy Logan talks ‘Small Axe,’ John Boyega and his new memoir

The real-life inspiration for Steve McQueen’s “Red, White and Blue” documents his career in law enforcement in “Closing Ranks: My Life as a Cop.” Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-04 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Black America, White violence and generations of unhealed wounds

In visceral essays, Michael Eric Dyson explains the unrest after George Floyd’s killing. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-04 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Ijeoma Oluo’s ‘Mediocre’ dissects white supremacy in America. She’d rather be writing about something else.

“It takes a huge toll to live the trauma of being a Black person in a white-supremacist country and then write it as well,” Oluo says. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-03 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Ijeoma Oluo’s new book interrogates white male mediocrity

In her latest book, out now, Oluo examines the cultural and political underpinnings of what she calls the “mediocre-white-man-industrial complex.” As protests against police brutality and racial injustice swept the country this summer, Ijeoma Oluo’s debut book, So You Want to Talk About Race was... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2020-12-02 06:00:29 UTC ]
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