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Alex Davis on 'Shadows, Secrets and Sin: The Dark Side of Thornrose' - The News Leader | Staunton, VA
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (29+ words) Alex Davis on 'Shadows, Secrets and Sin: The Dark Side of Thornrose' The News Leader | Staunton, VA Alex Davis on 'Shadows, Secrets and Sin: The Dark Side of Thornrose'...
Opinion | This novel may or may not be about Natalie Portman. Does it matter?
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (156+ words) The Washington Post Valerie Stivers is a senior editor for UnHerd, from which this article was adapted. The actress Natalie Portman has always seemed like a person who wants to brand herself as smart and bookish — a trait that appears…...
Want to see the Lowcountry through the eyes of one of its prolific writers? This book shows how
1+ week, 16+ hour ago (592+ words) Pat Conroy’s eyes were opened to the majesty of the Lowcountry riding in Gene Norris’s Buick. That was one of many ways his Beaufort High School English teacher introduced the young writer Conroy to a world that he never knew…...
Ford: Banning books doesn't help kids??? and won't stop them from reading them
1+ week, 3+ day ago (544+ words) The new year doesn’t start Jan. 1; it started Monday. It started with the first day of the new school year, and while I believe school should never begin until after Labour Day, I’m not the one making decisions. I do…...
Life of M
1+ week, 4+ day ago (974+ words) The Saturday Paper Article text size: This control adjusts article text size. For broader accessibility options, please use your browser or device text scaling settings. Two cyclists collide at an intersection and a man is thrown over the handlebars of…...
Tom Gauld on the end of the summer books season – cartoon
1+ week, 6+ day ago (13+ words) Continue reading... Tom Gauld on the end of the summer books season – cartoon...
This thinly veiled fiction is a hit job on actress Natalie Portman. That’s the point
2+ week, 6+ hour ago (1113+ words) August 30, 2026 — 5:00am Works of fiction often come with a legal boilerplate disclaimer inside the front cover: “any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental”. Not so the latest novel by Rachel Cusk, the Anglo-American author who reinvented autofiction…...
Fran Whiting’s plea: I hate to ask but I need you help
2+ week, 11+ hour ago (58+ words) The Courier Mail Fran Whiting’s plea: I hate to ask but I need you help Author Frances Whiting has called on Queensland readers to vote for her shortlisted book The Nocturnals in the Queensland Literary Awards People’s Choice category. All…...
Schools are assigning fewer novels. Are excerpts just as good?
2+ week, 3+ day ago (92+ words) The Washington Post Standardized testing, budget cuts and time constraints factor into decisions on whether students read more books or more excerpts. Eighth-graders at Aaron Wesolowski’s local D.C. middle school used to read four books throughout the school year, he…...
Juana's pains
2+ week, 4+ day ago (315+ words) We read in L'ARA that the writer and poet Juana Dolores “is about to abandon Catalan as a literary creation language, due to the systematic pressure and lynching she suffers on social networks”. She reasons it like this: “90% of my…...