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European parliament approves sweeping changes to copyright law

Mar 26 2019: The European parliament has approved a controversial directive introducing sweeping changes to copyright enforcement across Europe.

The European copyright directive is best known for two provisions it contains: articles 11 and 13, referred to as the “link tax” and “...

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Will Bibles designed for the Instagram generation get millennials into religion?

Mar 24 2019: There are a plethora of reasons young people say they are turned off by the religion they were born into, or religion in general. Some cite the conservative views of many faiths, like opinions on politics or same-sex marriage, as well as outdated structures of power. ...

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In Y.A., where Is the line between criticism and cancel culture

Mar 21 2019: Late last month, the author Kosoko Jackson withdrew the publication of his début young-adult novel, “A Place for Wolves,” which had been slated for a March 26th release. The book, which follows two American boys as they fall in love against the backdrop of the Kosovo ...

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Trump budget calls for closing the National Endowment for the Arts

Mar 19 2019: In what has become an annual rite under the Trump administration, the president’s fiscal year 2020 budget proposal calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts. Trump’s initial budgets for both fiscal 2018 and 2019 also called for cutting the NEA, ...

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Soft foods helped humans form 'f' and 'v' sounds

Mar 14 2019: According to researchers, the English language might never have enjoyed a richness of F-words had it not been for early farmers and the food processing they favored. Dairy products and other soft foods, such as gruel, porridge, soup and stews, helped shape our faces, ...

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Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced this fall--for 2018 and 2019

Mar 05 2019: After skipping 2018's announcement due to scandal, the Nobel Foundation has announced that the Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded in 2019 - and that Laureates will be announced for both 2018 and 2019.

According to the press release: "During the past year, the...

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Women's Prize for Fiction longlist announced

Mar 05 2019: The longlist for The Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 have been announced. The winner will be declared in June.

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton
My Sister, the Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Pisces Melissa Broder
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Legal threats from Broadway’s ‘Mockingbird’ sink productions around the country

Mar 01 2019: Across America, small theaters are canceling productions of Harper Lee’s "To Kill a Mockingbird," citing a threat of litigation from a powerful, sharp-elbowed Broadway producer related to a contract that dates back half a century.

The theaters were planning to stage ...

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