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Lin-Manuel Miranda Falls From The Heights

June 23, 2021June 24, 2021 Jake Harris 0 Comments Anthony Ramos, Bill Maher, Corey Hawkins, Hamilton, In The Heights, Jimmy Fallon, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Rita Moreno

A timeline of the political collapse of what was supposed to be the summer’s big musical hit

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Authors Warn About Content Warnings in Books

June 17, 2021June 22, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Ashley Bloom, Carmen Maria Machado, Content warnings, Erin Taylor, Every Bone a Prayer, Haunt Publishing, In The Dream House, Nick Mamatas, Renée Dahlia, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Carmen Maria Machado, Silvia Moreno Garcia, and others take to Twitter to decry censorship

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American Publishing in Censorship Mode

May 7, 2021May 16, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Blake Bailey, Dav Pilkey, Dr. Seuss, Jonathan Karp, Kamala Harris, Mike Pence, Philip Roth, Simon & Schuster, W.W. Norton, Woody Allen

Publishers keep pulling books from shelves, for all kinds of reasons

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The Book and Film Globe Week In Review podcast

May 1, 2021May 4, 2021 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments

Our editor and writers break down the week in culture

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Battle Over School Reading Lists Continues in Suburban Austin

April 27, 2021May 13, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Carmen Maria Machado, In The Dream House, Jacqueline Woodson, Kiss Number 8, Laurie Halse Anderson, Leander ISD, Margaret Atwood, PEN America, Shirley Jackson, The Handmaid's Tale, The Lottery, V is for Vendetta, Y: The Last Man

PEN America joins fight after Leander ISD “pauses” book recommendations

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The Saga of ‘Detransition, Baby’

April 12, 2021April 16, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Carmen Maria Machado, Detransition Baby, Elmer MacBride, Garth Greenwell, JK Rowling, Torrey Peters, Wild Women Writing Club, Women's Prize for Fiction

U.K. Women’s Prize nomination earns anti-trans backlash

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Jordan Peterson is the Red Skull: Secret Wars

April 8, 2021April 14, 2021 William Schwartz 2 Comments Captain America, Jordan Peterson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Red Skull

Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates turns Peterson into Captain America’s arch-nemesis

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The ALA’s Annual Banned Book List: A Sobering Snapshot of American Censorship

April 6, 2021April 9, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Alex Gino, All American Boys, American Library Association, Banned Book List, Brendan Kiely, George, Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds, John Steinbeck, Laurie Halse Anderson, Of Mice and Men, Something Happened In Our Town, Speak, Stamped, To Kill A Mockingbird

Parents and school boards still want to pull titles from shelves

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Looney Tunes Escapes the Censor’s Axe…So Far

March 30, 2021April 1, 2021 Omar Gallaga 0 Comments Charles Blow, Dr. Seuss, Gabriel Iglesias, Looney Tunes, Pepe LePew, Speedy Gonzales, Tim Soret, Wile E. Coyote

Well, except for Pepe LePew

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L’Affaire Depardieu

March 25, 2021March 29, 2021 Michael Washburn 5 Comments Abel Ferrara, Caroline Barclay, Dominque Strauss-Kahn, Gerard Depardieu, Welcome To New York

French actress takes a stand for the accused star in the shadow of #MeToo

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Amazon Pulls ‘When Harry Became Sally’ and Other anti-LGBTQ Titles

March 15, 2021March 22, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Ben Shapiro, Jeff Bezos, Ryan Anderson, When Harry Became Sally

The move comes after Republican lawmakers complained to CEO Jeff Bezos—which backfired.

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The Things That Got Us Through the Pandemic Year

March 11, 2021March 17, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments AEW, Animal Crossing, Big Mouth, Bill Burr, Devolution, Dungeons and Dragons, Edward St. Aubyn, Eurovision, Guy Fieri, Hard Life, Jaja Ding Dong, James Tynion, Liam Gallagher, Life on Mars, Liu Cixin, Magnum P.I., Max Brooks, Patrick Melrose, Sault, Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads, Ted Lasso, The Big Goodbye, The Department of Truth, The Good Place, The Mandalorian, The Three Body Problem, Tiger King, Werner Herzog, YouTube

In a tough 12 months, our contributors turned to what they could

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The Return of Jordan Peterson

March 9, 2021March 16, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments

The book they couldn’t cancel has arrived

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The Cancellation of Dr. Seuss

March 3, 2021March 8, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, Dr. Seuss, If I Ran The Zoo, Jim Jordan, Madison Cawthorn, Ted Cruz, The Cat In The Hat

Dr. Seuss’ literary estate pulls six early books for questionable content, setting off a political firestorm

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Update: We’re Still Destroying the Arts

March 2, 2021March 4, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments arts, Austin City Limits, COVID, Hootie and the Blowfish, James Bond, New Orleans Jazz Fest, Post Malone, Theater

For no rational reason

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