She Has No Autonomy. Can She Be Happy?
The community, or, as its members call it, the Dorf, has everything a person might need. It has a medical center and a kitchen, a “Babyhouse” for child care, and...
Books
Disability Memoirs Have a New Purpose
Helen Keller opens her 1903 autobiography with a confession. “It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life,” the deafblind author admits....
Massive James Baldwin biography digs deep into the romances that shaped his writing
In Nicholas Boggs’ lively and vigorously researched biography of James Baldwin, the great writer’s search for the source of his art dovetails with his lifelong search for meaningful relationships. Black,...
More and more books are being banned. California libraries find a solution
LOS ANGELES — There were 10,000 instances of book bans at public schools in the 2023-24 school year, according to PEN America. In 2024, 5,813 titles were challenged in public...
Oregon resident returns grandmother’s 1943 library book after 82 years with note about late fees
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A library book checked out 82 years ago was finally returned to a library in San Antonio, Texas in June by an...
Greedy landlords — not Bronx residents — were really to blame for the fires that ravaged NYC in the ’70s and ’80s: new book
In the early hours of an April morning in 1975, New York landlord Imre Oberlander and his associate, Yishai Webber, donned disguises — wigs and blackface — and set out...
Library book returned 82 years after due date: “I hope there is no late fee”
A library book that was checked out in July 1943 was finally returned to the San Antonio Public Library, nearly 82 years late. The book, “Your Child, His Family, and...
What Elite Tech Students Are Learning from Poetry
One of the highlights of my first three years as a literature professor at MIT—and indeed, of my 15-year career as an educator—has been the recent discovery that some of...
‘Sweetener’ is a fun sapphic romp brimming with identity confusion
In 1984, at age 33, I fell in love with a woman for the first time. Her name was Cathy. Her previous girlfriend’s name was also Cathy. “Wasn’t that confusing,...
Judge strikes down key parts of Florida law that led to removal of books from school libraries
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge has struck down key parts of a Florida law that helped parents get books they found objectionable removed from public school libraries and...
