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As questions about freedom of speech continue to spark heated debate across the book business, the nation’s regional independent bookselling associations convened a panel on Tuesday to discuss how the issue impacts independent booksellers.

Pulitzer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones joins Times readers to discuss the legacy of slavery in America.

(RNS) — 'Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle' weaves together the stories of Black lives and Black literature with the stories of the Bible.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Book Festival is being shown online after the in-person event was canceled because of concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. Organizers say videos of 31 panel discussions have been recorded in the past month.

The Mississippi Book Festival is being shown online after the in-person event was canceled because of concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Book Festival is being shown online after the in-person event was canceled because of concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. Organizers say videos of 31 panel discussions have been recorded in the past month.

The lawyer, poet and recent MacArthur genius grant recipient talks about his initiative Freedom Reads which offer inmates access to books across the US

Twenty contemporary writers recommend overlooked novels, essays and poetry that deserve to sit alongside the classics on our bookshelves

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — This months Mississippi Book Festival has been canceled amid...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — This month’s Mississippi Book Festival has been canceled amid concerns of contagion from the latest surge in coronavirus infections. “Authors were very uncomfortable traveling, and we didn’t want to take any chances,” the festival’s executive director, Holly Lange, said Wednesday. “We did not want to be a super-spreader event and put […]