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In  Kurt Vonnegut ’s novel “ Cat’s Cradle ,” the narrator meets a woman on a plane who is delighted to discover that he is from Indiana. Hol...

By Steven J. Dubner, co-author of "Freakonomics" Very interesting essay by James Collins (this one, not that one) in the New Yor...

Litigious billionaires and foreign courts are as much a threat as book-banning fundamentalists By Laura Miller Last week was Banned Books...

alurista will be at UTPA on October 11 as the 2010 speaker in UTPA Library’s Innovative Voices Series. He will also be part of the “alurist...

This is Banned Book Week, September 25-October 2; sponsored by the American Library Association in conjunction with several other organizati...

The Penny's British Heritage Like so much else American, the name penny comes from England. The first modern English coin was the silv...

Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's movie "Howl," which features one of James Franco's best performances to date, as legend...

During his lifetime, Franz Kafka burned an estimated 90 percent of his work. After his death at age 41, in 1924, a letter was discovered in ...

Call for Submissions “De Diosa a Hembra to Chicana: Celebrating the Last 40 Years of Chicana Activism.” 2011 NACCS-Tejas Regional Confer...

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