Watch 'Black Poets in a Time of Unrest' live

L.A. poet laureate Robin Coste Lewis and other poets share experiences and verse with L.A. Times Book Club readers. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-09-24 20:18:48 UTC ]
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Double The Book Bans In Half The Time: PEN America’s Latest Book Ban Report

PEN's new report shows that book bans continue to rise and continue to target books by or about queer people and people of color. Continue reading at Book Riot

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‘Unfurling tension and menace’: how slow TV like Ripley makes for a truly gripping watch

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Robert Lowell! W.E.B. Du Bois on WWI! Black spies! 27 books out in paperback this April.

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The Liturgy and Anxiety of Ordinary Lives: In Conversation with Rigoberto González, by Darlington Chibueze Anuonye

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London: Tom Crewe Wins the Sunday Times’ Young Writer Award

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Gerald Levin, the former Time Warner CEO who engineered a disastrous mega-merger, is dead at 84

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Crain's 20 In Their 20s showed promise at a young age. They're living up to the hype

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7 Books By Black Authors That Might Not Be On Your Reading List, But Should Be

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Announcing Voyage Into Genre Live!

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A poet's novel of utopia shows less an ideal than, perhaps, a road map

Are utopias becoming a trend in fiction during this dystopian era? The debut novel from Phillip B. Williams, 'Ours,' embraces magic without ignoring reality. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

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12 Brilliant Short Stories by Black Writers to Read Year-Round

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Raja Shehadeh, Yiyun Li and Maria Bamford among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists

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