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The systematic censorship in the US of artists who express sympathy with the plight of the Gazan population and oppose the genocidal policies of Netanyahu-Biden continues.

Dirty Thirties revisited TimeLine Theatre premieres “Black Sunday,” a climate change-inspired play by Chicago playwright Dolores Diaz. Developed through TimeLine’s playwrights collective, t...

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PaleyFest, pet adoptions, WORDTheatre, and even a Taylor Swift tribute night.

The free-speech group came under fire for working with Jewish pro-Israel actor Mayim Bialik, while corners of the Internet tried to smear author Gabrielle Zevin as a “Zionist.”

A wave of intense pro-Palestinian activism within the broad literary community has included bestselling Jewish authors being targeted online as “Zionists.”

Harron Walker: Hi, Nan. Let’s begin with your decision, this past November, to pull out of a cover shooting for the New York Times Magazine. On Instagram, you cited the newspaper’s “complicity with Israel” and its anti-Palestinian bias, “how they question the veracity of anything Palestini...

Members of the group Writers Bloc staged an action during an awards dinner chaired by New York Times President Meredith Kopit Levien.

Writers Bloc at Donnellson Library is 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15.

Black horror is having a big moment. A critic who profiled its pioneer, Tananarive Due, reflects on the booming genre — and other books highlights of the week.