Denny Sicairos, 5, holds a sign at a Bakersfield protest against an extensive Border Patrol operation held last week. Advocates have called upon school leaders to take action to protect immigrants, in the wake of an extensive operation by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in Kern County last week. Immigrant families have been afraid […]
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Imagine waking up one morning and deciding to become William Shakespeare. You have fantasized about it for years and now you’re taking the fateful step. Overcome by a heady mixture of zeal, naivete, and hubris, you’re freed from feelings of shame or guilt. Although you live in the late eighteenth rather than the early seventeenth
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West Contra Costa Unified’s Stege Elementary School in Richmond. Photo: Andrew Reed/EdSource West Contra Costa Unified School District is on the cusp of a new and uncertain era following the retirement of its superintendent, Chris Hurst, who stepped down in December after just over three years on the job. Whoever is chosen to permanently replace
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The Eaton fire began on January 7 in Eaton Canyon in the Altadena–Pasadena region of Los Angeles County. Within six hours, driven by Santa Ana winds, the fire exploded, decimating 1,000 acres and triggering large-scale evacuations. As of January 13, this fire has burned some 14,117 acres and is still only 33 percent contained. Along
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January 13, 2025, 2:38pm Photo from Fox’s Twitter/X account I’m not a big football fan, but I did watch a lot of skateboarding videos as a teen so I understand the appeal of a sport that involves lots of concussions. So I nearly missed the overlap between reading and football (speaking of violent collisions) that
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January 13, 2025, 2:22pm Another major academic org is in turmoil over Palestine. This weekend, members of the Modern Language Association (MLA) protested the group’s annual convention in New Orleans after the executive council refused to hold a vote on a pro-Palestinian resolution. As Ryan Quinn reported in Inside Higher Ed, members of the rank
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January 13, 2025, 12:13pm In pleasant book news, the New York Public Library has acquired Jhumpa Lahiri’s archive. The beloved multilingual translator and award-winning author’s papers will now be available to view in the Berg Collection of English and American Literature, located in the basement below Fortitude and Patience’s paws. In that storied center, Lahiri’s
You can now find Jhumpa Lahiri’s first drafts at the New York Public Library. Read More »
January 13, 2025, 11:00am This morning, The Story Prize—which seeks to recognize the best short story collection published every year—announced its three 2025 finalists, chosen from a total of 107 submissions. “Each of these three story collections is so original in conception and brilliantly executed that only the person who wrote them could have done so.
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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1599, Edmund Spenser dies in London. He is buried in the Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey. Lauren Carroll Harris on takes a deep dive into the class politics of tradwife influencers. | Lit Hub Politics “I think documentary poetics often make evident the politics of
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It’s easy enough to cast Donald Trump as the Wizard in the Wicked film adaptation released in November—perhaps as easy as it was to see George W. Bush in the role when the stage musical debuted on Broadway in October 2003. One might notice the glaring similarities between the three: the desire to construct an
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