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News

March 2, 2018

China Has Banned 1984 Along with the Letter ‘N’

It was recently announced that China's President, Xi Jinping, has changed the law so a…

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Literature News

February 8, 2018

Schools in Duluth, Minnesota Have Removed Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird from the Curriculum.

The Duluth school district of Minnesota has decided to remove Mark Twain's The Adventures of…

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Literature Political

January 9, 2018

Banned Books: The New Jim Crow

The New Jim Crow is an award-winning book by Michelle Alexander and was published in 2010.…

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Authors Literature

November 3, 2017

The Private Lives of Authors: Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov is best known as the author of the 1955 novel Lolita, in which a…

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Literature News

October 16, 2017

To Kill a Mockingbird Removed from Mississippi School Reading List

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s classic novel about racism in the American South has…

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Arty Literature

July 9, 2017

The Parthenon of Banned Books

A tremendous art installation replicating a Greek Parthenon has been constructed by Argentinian artist, Marta Minujín.…

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Adaptations News

May 17, 2017

Colorado District Pull 13 Reasons Why After Spate of Suicides

A Colorado school district is speaking out against Jay Asher’s book 13 Reasons Why after…

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Culture Literary Events

April 4, 2017

George Orwell’s 1984 Comes to Broadway!

George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 has once again become very popular in recent times and, with…

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Quizzes

February 22, 2017

The Top 100 Most influential Authors

Using Klout which takes into account social media activity and engagement across many social networks including…

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Literature

December 8, 2016

TED-Ed: Why Do We Love (and Need) Dystopian Fiction?

Here at For Reading Addicts we are no strangers to some dark or disturbing dystopian…

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