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First edition of a Spanish newspaper. via Wikimedia Commons
Neglected and Loved Treasures of Ancient and Modern Literature
What is Literature Good For?
Regardless of genre or style:
The eternal virtues of literature are sincerity, clarity, breadth, force, and subtlety.— Sir Walter Raleigh (the literary critic, not the Elizabethan courtier), in Romance
Little Reads
Little Reads
by Kate Scaife Diaz (April 3, 2025) [Smart Bitches, Trashy Books]
A former US AID employee and romance reader (who once dreamed of becoming an author in the genre) writes about the romantic ideals of her profession versus the unromantic realities of 2025 politics.
At USAID, we had to delete all references to the words women, female, or gender in our programs, reports, and internal documents. [...] Women, especially transgender, minority, and immigrant women, are being systematically erased by this administration and with it our needs, our desires, and our dreams.
Black Lives Matter:
by Victoria Alexander [Victorialynnalexander.com] (updated throughout June 2020)
An American academic has put together a reading list for fledgling anti-racists that is the best-rounded, most thoughtful one I have seen so far.
It ranges from calls to action, and films and magazine articles and non-fiction books and more, to novels about African-American experiences.
I am working through the list. It's a gradual process; I only wrapped up New York Times Magazine's 1619 project on June 21st, and have read Ta-Nehisi Coates's article for The Atlantic: "Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular" (October 23, 2017).
About Me
- Edithor
- Canadian-raised Berliner. 39 years old. Formerly, data entry team lead. Besides working, I am interested in literature, languages, classical music, and many other things.
Literary Pages
- Anti-Racist Resource Guide (PDF, 2020)
- Distributed Proofreaders (Project Gutenberg)
- Harper's Magazine
- Hathi Trust (free public domain books)
- Im Dickicht (Wordpress Blog)
- Ms. Magazine: Arts & Entertainment
- New York Review of Books
- New Yorker
- Oprah Magazine: Books
- Our Shared Shelf: Emma Watson's Group on Goodreads
- Project Gutenberg (Online Book Catalogue)
- Publishers Weekly | Reviews
- The Guardian⎮Books
- Times Literary Supplement
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First edition of a Spanish newspaper. via Wikimedia Commons
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