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Literary gold: There is a treasure trove of rare books in the vaults at the University of Calgary
Murray, who is the University of Calgary’s Rare Books and Special Collections librarian in Archives and Special Collections, ...
Why do women read more fiction than men?
Just over half of women and 40% of men read a book in 2022, but just 29.5% of men read fiction, compared to 49.2% of women.
An intimate look at Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne’s papers
The glamorous literary couple’s archives are housed at the New York Public Library and now open to the public.
Richland Library opens a new chapter for an overdue book festival
The Richland Library will host its inaugural three-day book festival this weekend, called the Read Freely Fest.This free ...
The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far)
We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...
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How the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s last novel was rescued from the archives, and wrestled into print
Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired ...
Fiction: Chaim Grade’s ‘Sons and Daughters’
A sprawling Yiddish-language epic looks back on the lost world of Jewish life in the shtetls of early 20th-century Europe.