"The paperbacks were intended to help soldiers pass the time. But they were also meant to remind them what they were fighting for, and draw a sharp contrast between American ideals and Nazi book burnings." - The New York Times
One judge on the 784-page Mr. B: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century, by Jennifer Homans: "I’m hopeless on the dancefloor, ... but this book takes you in. It’s a story of the 20th century." - The Guardian (UK)
Poet Vona Groarke: "I think my voice is being appropriated, my life, in a strange way, I fear, is also being appropriated, my sensitivity, my sensibility." - Irish Times
"The books feature sheep that lived in a village and had to defend themselves against wolves. In the series of books, the sheep take action such as going on strike or escaping by boat." - Seattle Times (AP)
What happens when a writer who is used to rapturous reception, with a knack for shaping stories, collides with an active public drama he doesn’t control? - The New York Times
Okay, strictly speaking, it wasn't the United States yet, but the Puritan government in the Massachusetts Bay Colony suppressed Thomas Morton's book The New English Canaan back in 1637. - Smithsonian Magazine
For more than two decades after Ukraine's independence, Russian-language titles accounted for more than four-fifths of the country's book market. That began to change after Russia's 2014 invasion of Crimea and the Donbas, and since 2022, even most of the native Russophone authors in Ukraine have switched to Ukrainian. - The Guardian
The committee awarded the 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) prize for the 64-year-old Norwegian writer's "innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable." - AP
The reasons vary, but more writers are dropping speech marks to explore distances between readers and narrators and even to eliminate hierarchies. - The Walrus
