The Captain’s Boy
As America grapples with a battered democracy, it’s worth considering why these ideals are worth saving from rioters who would violently attempt to subvert them. Children certainly ought to have more...
View ArticleJack Gets Zapped: The Latest from Mac Barnett and Greg Pizzoli
Courtesy of Viking Books At this point in the pandemic, many of us living the WFH life may feel as though we’ve been sucked right into our computer screens. But we’re adults, supposedly capable of...
View ArticleBronx Resident Bringing Mobile Bookstore to Borough
Lifelong Bronx resident Latanya Devaughn is on a mission to bring a bookstore on wheels to her borough. Now, after two years of soliciting donations for books and funds, Devaughn recently announced...
View ArticleA Troubling Account of Ethiopia’s Democracy Revolution
Ethiopia’s civil war continues to spiral into a political and humanitarian crisis and is the latest in a series of internal conflicts. The civil war of 1974 to 1991 saw the Tigray People’s Liberation...
View ArticleA Perceptive Review of “Cross of Snow” in The Times Literary Supplement
The lead book review in today’s number of the TLS (Times Literary Supplement) is a lengthy, perceptive consideration of “Cross of Snow,” written by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, professor of Classics and...
View Article“Too Small Tola” A Major Literary Treat
One of the most original children’s books to cross our desk so far this year is Too Small Tola ($15.99, 96 pages, ages 6-9) by Nigerian-born storyteller Atinuke, with delightful illustrations by...
View ArticleRenato!
Renato! by Eugene Mirabelli, McPherson & Company, $20, 577 pages. “The gods are immortal and we are not, and no, we are not free to live like gods. We die. We don’t want to be dispersed or...
View ArticleUniversity of Chicago Professor Named Sheikh Zayed Book Award Winner
Sweden’s got the Nobel, New York proffers the Pulitzer, France bestows the Goncourt, and the UAE has the Sheikh Zayed Book Award. Perhaps the latter is unfamiliar to some readers out there–it was to...
View ArticleThe NFT Art Market Explained & How to Participate Safely
copyright Ali Sabet. Reproduced with permission of the artist Head on over to Art and Object and read all about how NFTs are rocking the art world, plus some pointers on how to collect these digital...
View ArticleThank you!
We’ve had a good run here at Literary Features Syndicate–over thirty years!–and we are eternally grateful to our loyal readers, to the publishing houses for furnishing us with great nourishment, and...
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