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“For those Afro-Caribbean Panamanian who had lived through Panama’s Canal Zone apartheid, Brooklyn segregation probably came as no surprise.”

The idea of black self-determination led to the beginning of a movement which Alain Locke, a black American intellectual, described as a 'spiritual coming of age' of the black community. It was ca...

Gatsby lover in Michigan received a scanned version of the manuscript. Props to Gates. But should such generosity be so random in regard to books—when libraries face new budget challenges, especially in paying for ebooks and audiobooks, whose use has skyrocketed during the virus crisis? U.S. public libraries can spend only about $1.7 billion a year on content of all kinds, digital and nondigital. two national digital library systems—and something else in the interest of a more literate America: shortened copyright terms. Gatsby, published in 1925, was illegal to reproduce without author...

The Great Gatsby at the London International Antiquarian Book Fair in London in 2013. Image credit: Oli Scarff Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker — say “Alexa, play NPR” and you’ll be connected. What a year it was for Anglo-American literature and the arts! 1925 was the year of heralded novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf, seminal works by Sinclair Lewis, Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein, Agatha Christie, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Aldous Huxley … and a banner year for music...

The Great Gatsby at the London International Antiquarian Book Fair in London in 2013. Oli Scarff / Getty Images What a year it was for Anglo-American literature and the arts! 1925 was the year of heralded novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf, seminal works by Sinclair Lewis, Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein, Agatha Christie, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Aldous Huxley ... and a banner year for musicians, too. Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, the Gershwins, Duke Ellington and Fats Waller, among hundreds of others, made important recordings. And 1925 marked the release of canonical movie...