After nearly two weeks raising money to recount votes from last month’s US presidential election, Jill Stein will no longer pursue the recount in Pennsylvania. Recount requests are still pending in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Protestors camped in resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline face a harsh winter. But as temperatures dip below zero degrees Fahrenheit in North Dakota, emergency service officials say they won’t let protestors freeze.
Sarah Palin is not enthused about Donald Trump’s recent deal for the American worker.
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In Kingdom of Fear, Hunter S. Thompson sucks on a marijuana pipe and disparages himself in front of Anita, his assistant who would become his wife. They’ve just crashed a Cadillac. Sharing the pipe, Anita says, “You’re funny. You’re very strange.”
“DO NOT READ THIS BOOK IF YOU HATE DESPAIR AND UNHAPPINESS AND DEATH AND FEAR,” writes a book critic about John Boyne’s The Boy at the Top of the Mountain, about a young boy sent to live in Hitler’s mountain house.
When Sajia Darwish was in elementary school, there weren’t a lot of books lying around her school in Kabul, Afghanistan. Civil war and the reign of the Taliban coincided with a decline in reading culture. To pass time, Darwish picked up How to Win Friends and Influence People in Farsi.
“Wow, the National Book Foundation is woke!” said comedian Larry Wilmore at an award’s ceremony on the night of Nov. 16 in downtown New York City.
The Bern is back.
Penguin Random House, one of the largest book publishers in the US, put out around 20 new fiction books translated into English this year. Amazon, a tech giant, put out about 60.
A month ago, I heard a word said aloud that I have only read in books and heard in movies.
Amazon’s tentacles are spreading far and wide. The one-time book delivery service is now a TV and film studio, a book publisher, and in its latest venture, an experimental fiction maker.
Yesterday, the US chose Donald Trump to be its next president; Hillary Clinton lost the election and a chance to be the first woman to lead the country.
This morning, New Yorkers waited to vote for the next president of the United States for upwards of two hours, with varying degrees of customer satisfaction. (I voted in the lobby of an apartment building, and it was cramped but speedy.)
For Walt Whitman, America’s beauty lies not in its rolling hills, but its polling booths. Over 100 years ago, the great American poet celebrated this momentous day of choosing with “Election Day, November, 1884.” The poem, which appears in an annex of Leaves of Grass, still resonates today as a reminder of the nation’s ideals of a peaceful democratic process.
The biggest day of Hillary Clinton’s career starts with civic duty. The US presidential candidate, the first woman to be a major contender for the highest office in the country, cast her ballot today at around 8am.
Tough times are falling on a library in Russia.
In a few days, when we finally get to the end of a nasty presidential campaign, either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will be elected the next commander in chief of the United States.
Since 1999, one Barnes & Noble bookstore has served the book needs of the million-plus residents of the Bronx. It is, as The New Yorker points out, the only general-interest bookstore in the entire New York City borough. And at the end of this year, it will close.
Just hours before he played his last game, basketball legend Kobe Bryant was engrossed in some other work: editing.
In the world of book prizes, it’s been a shocking few weeks. First the Nobel prize for literature was given to a musician, and now the UK’s most prestigious literary prize goes to an American.
For decades, an award supposedly for “the finest in fiction” really meant ”the finest novels written in English by people living in the UK and former British colonies—but not the US.”
American folk musician Bob Dylan’s controversial win of the Nobel prize for literature last week caused some to decry the state of books. But there might be an economic downside too.
In the three months since the attempted military coup in Turkey, the Turkish government has closed an estimated 140 media outlets and detained more than 30,000 soldiers, police officers, lawyers, journalists, and educators.
