NYC protests new Amazon headquarters
“G-T-F-O, Amazon has got to go!” chanted protestors in a Cyber Monday demonstration against the mega-retailer set to become a mega-bummer in New Yorkers’ lives. Activists gathered at Herald Square… Read more »
As more books are banned in Kuwait, activists rise up
Another Kuwait International Book Fair, another controversy. Now in its 43rd year, it is one of the most important book fairs in the Middle East. This year, running until 24th November, 505… Read more »
School bans backpacks; boy protests by bringing books to school in a microwave
We all remember those Autumn school days, right? Crisp mornings spent trudging through papery leaves, box-fresh stationery jostling in your pencil case, the sweet scent of decay permeating the air. Frosty… Read more »
A retired AP English teacher is the new, and potentially best, hero of the resistance
Tom Paine. Rachel Carson. Howard Zinn. Yvonne Mason? Yes, resisters, let us welcome Mason to the ranks of Fabled American Protest Writers. Because if the former English teacher’s marked-up letter… Read more »
Sixty-five warehouse workers and protestors wish Amazon a happy holiday by picketing the Manhattan Amazon Books
As holiday fulfillment ramps up at Amazon warehouses around the country, and as municipalities and state goverments continue to hurl fistfuls of cash at Jeff Bezos, a coalition of workers… Read more »
Writers denounce the New York Times’ decision to hire Bret Stephens
While the widespread anger over the New York Times’ decision to add Bret Stephens to their roster of op-ed writers has focused on his troubling views on a number of issues,… Read more »
A new tradition of teach-ins starts now
Starting this Sunday, January 8, Politics & Prose, DC’s stalwart indie bookstore, will begin hosting teach-ins to inform the public about important issues surrounding Donald Trump’s presidency. Teach-ins go back to… Read more »
Joshua Stephens: On Nonviolence in a Burning World
As demonstrations swell across the country against the election of Donald Trump and his clown car of fascist comic-book villains, we will inevitably hear a certain refrain from liberals: Nonviolence.… Read more »
Anatomy of a (Translated) Page: Basma Abdel Aziz’s The Queue
Much of a translator’s work boils down to being a mediator. In the larger sense, we’re mediators between languages, of course. But translating an entire novel also means mediating between… Read more »
Carnegie Library protesters take to the streets, plan next steps
Last week, we reported on the anger of patrons and big-name authors over the decision to convert Lambeth’s Carnegie Library into what the Lambeth Council is calling “a healthy living… Read more »