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Maya Angelou’s newly uncovered writing from Egypt and Ghana reveals a more radical side to her career

Maya Angelou’s political journalism, written in the 1960s, was radical and anti-colonial. Pictorial Press/Alamy Stock Photo by Alex White, University of Cambridge On August 28 1963, a...

Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today

Thomas Worth’s 1872 illustration for the Household Edition of The Old Curiosity Shop highlights her grandfather’s grief at losing Little Nell. Thomas Worth via...

Nikki Giovanni, iconic poet and voice of the Black Arts Movement, dies at 81

Giovanni rose to prominence during the 1960s as a fierce voice in the Black Arts Movement, alongside literary giants such as Amiri Baraka, Audre...

3 of Jane Austen’s 6 brothers engaged in antislavery activism − new research offers more clues about her own views

More than 200 years after her death, Jane Austen’s views on slavery remain unclear. Jim Dyson/Getty Images by Devoney Looser, Arizona State University More than two...

JD Vance is no pauper − he’s a classic example of ‘poornography,’ in which the rich try to speak on behalf of the poor

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance holds a rally in his hometown, Middletown, Ohio, on July 22, 2024. Luke Sharrett/The Washington Post via Getty...

Inside the rise and fall of one of the world’s most powerful writing groups

At its peak in the mid-2010s, the Romance Writers of America had around 10,000 members. Ekaterina Markelova/iStock via Getty Images by Christine Larson, University of...

BookTrib’s Bites: Four reads to kickoff Spring

(NewsUSA) - Coded to Kill by Marschall Runge, M.D. Is medicine’s greatest breakthrough also the world’s most efficient killing machine? After a decade of development, Drexel...

J. Pharoah Doss: Right-wing simpletons, self-immolators, and flame fanners

HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST OWEI LAKEMFA Constance Garnett translated the majority of Russian literature into English in the first half of the twentieth century. After translating...

What’s behind the astonishing rise in LGBTQ+ romance literature?

Adobe Stock Photo by Christine Larson, University of Colorado Boulder and Ashley Carter, University of Colorado Boulder A major transformation is underway in Romancelandia. Once upon a...

How World War I sparked the artistic movement that transformed Black America

Aaron Douglas. "Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery to Reconstruction." Oil on canvas, 1934. The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in...

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