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“Can progressives make progress?” asks David Alff.
In his latest Book Post review, Alff looks at 3 books, reflecting on abundance liberalism—its underpinnings and its failings.
books.substack.com/p/review-dav...
.@penguinpress.bsky.social still has the kind of integrity you don’t much see in modern major publishing. We are fortunate to have had this major presence upholding book values
For incarcerated people, #books are power are hope. #Bookbans are acts of oppression. Challenging them requires understanding them.
3/18. 1p EST. 👇🏽
@themarshallproject.org hosts a virtual event teaching you how to investigate book bans.
Kristi Noem misattributing a paraphrase of Rudyard Kipling to George Orwell really does sum it all up huh
Oliver Darcy comments on new mogul man David Ellison.
"His well-rehearsed talking points are, really, meaningless platitudes. Every news organization wants to be in the 'trust business.' Every news organization wants to be in the 'truth business.'"
There are reasons why the trust is gone.
Chart showing in many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good.
We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.
The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...
Incredible story by Moe Tkacik based on new Epstein documents that link him on multiple fronts to the agonizing death of the New York Daily News, the tabloid that would perhaps be most equipped in its day to chronicle the Epstein depravity. 🧵
prospect.org/2026/02/26/n...
Rise up, defenders of @roncharles.bsky.social
LOA’s recently published Walt Whitman: On Democracy has debuted on not one but two (!!) best-seller lists, hitting No. 3 on the Independent Bookseller Independent Press Top 40 and No. 15 on the Independent Bookseller Bestseller list. Order your copy from LOA and save 25%: www.loa.org/books/on-dem...
The kid is reading Bleak House and The Demons on the advice of a Reddit post, “Books that are like ‘The Wire.’” Taking the victories where they come (✍️)
ICYMI, a nationwide book ban bill has been introduced in the States, targeting LGBTQIA+ voices, especially trans voices.
Call your reps about H.R. 7661 ☎️
New on Book Post → Noah Simon on the beautiful and complex legacy of chestnuts.
“In Italian, Ettore compares the relationship between chestnuts and human beings to our relationships with dogs and horses—a coevolution.”
books.substack.com/p/diary-noah...
Baldwin’s librarian
Might this trustee ownership structure have something to do with its longevity? @maxtani.bsky.social
Child asking me about photographs in my office…
”…is this one your mother, or your teacher?”
“That is Iris Murdoch, my favorite novelist and philosopher”
“Is this one your mother?”
“…that is also Iris Murdoch.”
Last week, scholar Alexander Manshel published a vital paper about American reading habits. He noted that “high school English is the place where many lifelong readers are made,” he declared the high school English classroom “the most influential literary institution in the United States.”
View of the day from Book Post author Brianna Zimmerman of the Trinity College Dublin post-graduate study room. 📖
Read Brianna Zimmerman’s latest review of On Earth or In Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus by Eric Calderwood, now on Book Post.
“When I began editing… to me it was an almost euphoric experience… yourself just disappears, and you are sort of swimming through this language and trying to help it be what it needs to be or trying to be.” –Ann Kjellberg on The Bookshop Podcast
thebookshoppodcast.buzzsprout.com/1400590/epis...
Read the new review here → books.substack.com/p/review-bri...
@harvardpress.bsky.social
Al-Andalus—a dynamic place where people’s contradictions were grappled with: “ways of praying, ways of loving... ways of enjoying, ways of living.”
Brianna Zimmerman reviews On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus now on Book Post: books.substack.com/p/review-bri...
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They never let us come… 😢
Event commemorating Book World at Politics and Prose on Connecticut Avenue at 5 o’clock February 21st.
If you’re in DC tomorrow and want to see a lot of bookish people in one place, I have good news:
With Ron Charles and Becca Rothfeld laid off from WaPo, there are now only 5 full-time book critics working in the United States.
That's down from 7 when this pubbed last year, though you may find my definition of a "full-time book critic" arbitrary.
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
Librarian here. We grant library cards to ALL residents, no matter their age or legal status. Our ID requirements pertain to establishing residency only. Do not invoke libraries, which embrace *everyone* in its civic fold, as a precedent for measures designed to *suppress* civic participation.
