The third chapter of my book on anthologies, The Treasuries, is about literary censorship in the early nineteenth century.
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Clare Bucknell,
The New York Review of Books,
27 June 2026
Part of what fascinates and frustrates as regards Ginsberg is that for all of those thick anthologies, propriety forces me to concede that many of the poems simply aren’t that good.
Heather Rose is the Australian author of seven novels including her latest novel The Museum of Modern Love published this month by Algonquin.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
Later novels routinely took inspiration from family members or former or current lovers; the 1980 novel that baffled Frank Kermode is a dreamlike fable about a man guiltily trying to have an extramarital affair.
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Christopher Tayler,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
Children’s literature can humanize Black people in a way that news coverage, television, films and school textbooks and curriculum often do not, helping to combat racial bias and stereotypes.
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Brooke Harris Garad,
The Conversation,
14 July 2026
The forthcoming book will tell American history through the lives of everyday people, especially those whose stories have often been left out of traditional textbooks.
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