I WALKED over to West 10th to Three Lives bookstore an hour ago and got these. There were many others worth getting. Three Lives is one of those stores. They know how to stock windows and shelves and countertops and tabletops. Everywhere you turn.

 

I recurrently say to myself that I’ll stop getting the ‘New York Times’ delivered to me. Hardly anyone else in my Manhattan apartment building gets it. A dozen maybe get it out of 250 apartments. They probably read it online. I do too. But I’m in the morning habit of getting a paper. And sometimes like this morning’s photo of ‘Rolling Stone’ founder Jann Wenner the graphics are so large and strong that I’m glad it gets dropped outside my door. I can hear it land. 

 

Public Libraries Face Threats to Funding and Collections as Book Bans Surge

"We haven’t seen this volume of censorship efforts in 30 or more years.”

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Yevgenia Belorusets' "Lucky Breaks" portrays Ukrainian women whose lives have been upended by the conflict with Russia

Five Ukrainian authors you should read

As the International Literature Festival Berlin starts, it is calling for a worldwide reading of Ukrainian literature. Here is a selection of modern voices.

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A clear, graphically-bright look at Anne Frank and her diary (from the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.):

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/anne-frank-diary

Ian McEwan on aging, legacy and the attack on his friend Salman Rushdie: ‘It’s beyond the edge of human cruelty’

The author’s new novel explores how global events shape individual lives – but nothing prepared him for this ‘dark moment’ (from ‘The Guardian’):

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/03/ian-mcewan-on-ageing-legacy-the-attack-on-salman-rushdie-beyond-edge-of-human-cruelty?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

Paper books linked to stronger readers in an international study

There’s a lot to like about digital books. They’re lighter in the backpack and often cheaper than paper books. But a new international report suggests that physical books may be important to raising children who become strong readers.

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