Harold Bloom, the eminent critic and Yale professor whose “The Anxiety of Influence” and melancholy regard for literature’s old masters made him a popular author and standard-bearer of Western civilization, died Monday at 89.
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A Polish novelist and an Austrian writer were awarded Noble Prizes for literature Thursday, a rare double award that came after no prize was given last year due to sex abuse allegations in the organization that decides the winners.
Read moreLetters showing how Marcel Proust waged a charm offensive to get glowing reviews and win France’s top literary prize failed to sell at a Paris auction Monday.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel on Monday threw out a jury award of $8 million in punitive damages to John Steinbeck’s stepdaughter over a copyright dispute involving the author’s famous works.
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A Catholic school in Tennessee has removed the Harry Potter books from its library after the school’s priest decided they could cause a reader to conjure up evil spirits.
Read moreOn trial over federal defamation claims, bestselling romance novelist Nicholas Sparks denied he bullied the headmaster of a private Christian school Sparks founded in North Carolina to make the man quit.
Read moreThe Israel National Library on Wednesday unveiled a missing batch of Czech Jewish writer Franz Kafka’s papers, ending more than a decade of legal wrangling over ownership in Israel and Europe.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit appeared poised Tuesday to toss nearly $8 million in punitive damages awarded to John Steinbeck’s stepdaughter in a decades-long copyright spat between the Nobel Prize laureate’s heirs.
Read moreToni Morrison, the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died following a brief illness, her family said in a statement Tuesday. She was 88.
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Ernest Hemingway wasn’t the only Great American Writer with something to say about Paris.
Read moreArizona has banned prisoners from reading a book that discusses the impact of the criminal justice system on black men, drawing outcry from First Amendment advocates who say the move is censorship.
Read moreBest-selling novelist Nora Roberts is suing a Brazilian writer for copyright infringement, alleging that Cristiane Serruya has committed “multi-plagiarism” on a “rare and scandalous” level.
Read moreThe priest in northern Poland who led a public burning of the “Harry Potter” series and other books and items deemed by their owners as harmful has apologized and stressed it was not aimed against books or culture.
Read moreAbout 1,000 years ago, a woman in Germany died and was buried in an unmarked grave in a church cemetery. No record of her life survived, and no historian had reason to wonder who she was. But when modern scientists examined her dug-up remains, they discovered something peculiar — brilliant blue flecks in the tartar on her teeth.
Read moreA Jewish human rights group has urged Croatian authorities to ban a book that denies crimes committed by Croatia’s World War II pro-Nazi regime.
Read moreChristian activists who tried to stop Houston libraries from hosting “Drag Queen Storytime” because it allegedly promotes the LGBT community’s “secular humanist” religion lack standing, a federal judge ruled Thursday, dismissing the lawsuit.
Read moreA Nebraska entomologist has named three of his eight newest beetle discoveries after the dragons from the HBO series “Game of Thrones” and George R.R. Martin book series “A Song of Ice and Fire.”
Read morePigeon Cry Productions, of Massachusetts, claims in federal complaint that BLK BOX PHX’s “S#!tfaced Shakespeare” productions infringes on plaintiff’s Shit-faced Shakespeare trademark. (O, what fools these mortals be — wait, that was Homer …)
Read moreQuoting Dr. Seuss’ “The Lorax,” the Fourth Circuit spoke for the trees Thursday by scrapping a key federal permit for a planned section of a natural gas pipeline crossing 21 miles of national forest in Virginia, including a section of the Appalachian Trail.
Read moreThe man with ties to the Swedish Academy that awards the Nobel Prize in literature has lost his appeal to have his rape conviction and a two-year prison sentence reversed and has been convicted of a second rape.
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