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One unexpected outcome of the pandemic was the way many communities rallied around their local bookstores. Read more at Boston.com.

More than 300 bookstores have opened in the past couple of years — a revival that is meeting a demand for “real recommendations from real people.”

Who benefits when we decide—or accept—that the splinters of history are “beyond repair”?

Five centuries of white supremacist terror: not just a past to which we are ineluctably fastened, but a present which produces us, albeit in differing orders of magnitude and vulnerability. The United States has long maintained the fiction that this country had molted its foundational violence, and yet, just as your skin sheds daily only to live dispersed atop your furniture and knick-knacks, so too does the grime of history make up the loam in which a person is destined to flourish, struggle, o...

The annual presentation of PEN America’s literary awards and career achievement honors was produced digitally for a second year. A collage of some 55 finalists in the PEN America 2021 Literary Awards program. Image: PEN America Nossel: ‘This Year of Tumult and Torment’ In our previews of the PEN America Literary Award finalists and the program’s Career Achievement Prize recipients, Publishing Perspectives readers looked at one of the more complex annual presentations of a broad range o...

Gay, Wang, Ehrenreich, Hartman Win at 2021 PEN Lit Awards By Calvin Reid | Apr 08, 2021 The PEN Literary Awards, presented this year in a virtual ceremony, awarded poet Ross Gay the $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for Be Holding: A Poem (University of Pittsburgh), a book-length lyrical tribute to the great basketball player Julius Erving and much more. Michael X. Wang’s Further News of Defeat: Stories won the $25,000 PEN/Bingham Short Story Prize, and Barbara Ehrenr...

Winners of the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards Announced This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. The winners of the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards were announced in their first-ever online ceremony since the Awards began 57 years ago. It was hosted by Kara Young and featured many guest appearances, including Whoopi Goldberg and Viola Davis. In total, $380,000 in prizes were awarded to a diverse range of writers, translators, poet...

Content Notice: Graphic description of acts of Gender-Based Violence “You want to understand how power works in any society, watch who is carrying the shame and who is doing the shaming.” — Shailja Patel Growing up, I was taught all kinds of myths about Black women. I was taught, on the playground, in Disney films and from the Generations soapie that women are delicate things, that women are unambitious and are happiest waiting for men. That Black women who worked were lesser women who c...

Kneo Mokgopa - Manager: Communications & Advocacy News Content notice: Graphic description of acts of gender-based violence “You want to understand how power works in any society, watch who is carrying the shame and who is doing the shaming.”  Shailja Patel Growing up, I was taught all kinds of myths about Black women. I was taught, on the playground, in Disney films and from the Generations soapie that women are delicate things, that women are unambitious and are happiest waiting for men...

Elvira Dyangani Ose is director of The Showroom in London © Maureen M. Evans The new gallery platform South South, dedicated to art from the Global South, launches today with the live selling event South South Veza that will bring over 50 galleries from five continents together using auction technology and an online viewing room. Accompanying the event will be a series of talks and think tanks, including Institutional Hybridity, led by the curator and director of The Show...