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We’re ten days into the 30th National Poetry Month—perhaps you’ve seen our poem-of-the-day feature—and it’s gotten me into a lyrical mood. In that vein, I picked up and became instantly enraptured by John Berger’s And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, an unclassifiable amalgam of essay, memoir, and devotional that’s been catching my breath on […]
It’s April on the east coast, and we’re starting to get glimpses of beauty amid the chilled damp. Everyone knows Eliot’s description of April as the cruelest month: “Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with spring rain.” I feel you, brother. But the phrase that always pops into my mind is Shakespeare’s, from The Tempest: “spongy […]
Inspired by something Drew said on The Lit Hub podcast, I’ve been rethinking how I’m organizing the books I want to read, and trying to cull a little by being a little more honest about what I’m actually going to read. A nice plan, but in practice, I’m just moving books into increasingly precarious piles […]
And that’s the way it is — good night, and good luck. CBS News Radio — the century-old home of legendary journalists Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow — is shutting down as network boss Bari Weiss continues to reshape the struggling news network, cutting 6% of its workforce in a Friday bloodbath that claimed […]
CBS News’ latest round of cuts under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss claimed a handful of anchors and correspondents — with more top talent to come in later weeks. Sources told The Post that some of the network’s Friday casualties include correspondent Elaine Quijano, who was also weekend morning anchor for New York; Dallas-based correspondent Omar Villafranca; […]
Wake Now In The Fire by Jarrett Dapier and AJ Dungo In 2013, Chicago Public Schools banned Persepolis. It became clear pretty quickly that many within the district had no idea why the graphic novel became a target, nor why it was removed. This graphic novel tells the story of the book’s removal from CPS, […]
It’s the AWP Conference and Bookfair this week, and most of the Lit Hub staff has been in Baltimore. With the editors out of town, those of us not at AWP have been taking good care of the place, and being sure to clean up after ourselves, eat all our vegetables, and not have any […]
There are currently freedom to read bills under consideration in three states: Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania. An additional one is currently on deck in Virginia as well, though the details of that are worthy of a little more discernment. These are in addition to the 13 similar bills that have already passed. The titles […]
CBS News executives were weighing Monday evening whether to cut ties with anti-aging influencer Peter Attia in light of newly surfaced emails between him and late pal Jeffrey Epstein, The Post has learned. Editor in chief Bari Weiss — a longtime critic of cancel culture — was said to be initially reluctant to do so, […]
Gold and silver prices plummeted early Friday morning following news that President Trump planned to nominate Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the Federal Reserve. Investors started selling off precious metals with gold falling by as much as 10%, dropping from $5,500 an ounce to around $5,136 per ounce. Meanwhile, silver nosedived by up […]
