Gelflog digs up eleven children’s and YA books — beyond this year’s suddenly controversial Newbery Award winner — that contain the word “scrotum.” (Via.)
When I first mentioned the camel library service a few years back, I had no idea how many people rely on it. Since then, author Masha Hamilton has accompanied the camels on trips through Kenya’s isolated Northeastern Province, “near the unstable border with Somalia,” during a drought, and returned with photos and a video showing the crowds of people who . . .
“Like Sontag, like every great critic, [Joan] Acocella is subjective, uncompromising.” (Don’t miss Acocella’s 2005 essay on Hilary Mantel.)
Correspondence and official papers reveal the desperate efforts of Anne Frank’s family to gain entry to the U.S. or Cuba before they were forced into hiding.