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Tag: Writing and Writers

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Oscar Wilde Gets His Library Card Back, 125 Years After His Death

October 16, 2025October 17, 2025Claire MosesComments Off on Oscar Wilde Gets His Library Card Back, 125 Years After His Death

The Irish writer was barred in 1895 after being convicted of gross indecency. On Thursday, the British Library will hand over a symbolic new card to his grandson.

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A New Book Asks, What Is Canada?

October 11, 2025Matina Stevis-GridneffComments Off on A New Book Asks, What Is Canada?

“Elbows Up!” is a collection of essays by prominent Canadians like Margaret Atwood that seeks to make something positive out of Canada’s identity angst.

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A New Book Asks, What Is Canada?

October 11, 2025October 12, 2025Matina Stevis-GridneffComments Off on A New Book Asks, What Is Canada?

“Elbows Up!” is a collection of essays by prominent Canadians like Margaret Atwood that seeks to make something positive out of Canada’s identity angst.

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Understanding Post-Soviet Tyranny, in Order to Fight It

October 11, 2025Neil MacFarquhar and Milana MazaevaComments Off on Understanding Post-Soviet Tyranny, in Order to Fight It

After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the revival of its violent, anti-democratic ways.

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She Studies the Russian ‘Red Man’ Whose Bloody War Evokes Soviet Tyranny

October 11, 2025October 11, 2025Neil MacFarquhar and Milana MazaevaComments Off on She Studies the Russian ‘Red Man’ Whose Bloody War Evokes Soviet Tyranny

After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the revival of its violent, anti-democratic ways.

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Jilly Cooper, Widely Popular Romance Novelist, Is Dead at 88

October 6, 2025October 6, 2025Claire MosesComments Off on Jilly Cooper, Widely Popular Romance Novelist, Is Dead at 88

A prolific British writer and keen observer, she sold millions of copies of her juicy, sometimes racy “Rutshire Chronicles” series.

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Ivan Klima, Czech Novelist Who Chafed Under Totalitarian Regimes, Dies at 94

October 4, 2025October 4, 2025David Binder and Dan BilefskyComments Off on Ivan Klima, Czech Novelist Who Chafed Under Totalitarian Regimes, Dies at 94

A writer, dissident, teacher and critic, he was deeply affected by an early experience of his life: incarceration as a boy in a concentration camp near Prague.

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Taliban Bans Books by Women in Afghanistan’s Universities

September 19, 2025Pranav BaskarComments Off on Taliban Bans Books by Women in Afghanistan’s Universities

More than 600 books, many of them written by women, are being purged, based on a contention that they conflict with Sharia principles.

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Taliban Bans Books by Women in Afghanistan’s Universities

September 19, 2025September 19, 2025Pranav BaskarComments Off on Taliban Bans Books by Women in Afghanistan’s Universities

More than 600 books, many of them written by women, are being purged, based on a contention that they conflict with Sharia principles.

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Gérard Chaliand, Intrepid Authority on Geopolitics, Dies at 91

August 27, 2025August 28, 2025ADAM NOSSITERComments Off on Gérard Chaliand, Intrepid Authority on Geopolitics, Dies at 91

His considerable influence in the French-speaking world was based on an unusual attribute: He had actually been to the revolutions he wrote about.

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