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How do book bans affect teaching practices?

The battle over the novel offers a window into America’s long-running fight over what students should be allowed to read.

Any self-respecting 18th-century encyclopedia of the arts and sciences contains an entry along the lines of this one...

Josh Thorpe shares two fun chatbot exercises that educators can use to get students thinking about and using AI more creatively as part of their university study

The point about the microphone as a visual aid is a minor one. Behind it lies a more fundamental question. What does the...

How do you write a "complete" life of Shakespeare when very little complete information about his life exists? Paul Menzer manages to do just that—while throwing some "wobbles into the orbit" of well-...

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Book Bites

Kurt Vonnegut describes the train arriving in Dresden at five o’clock that afternoon: “The boxcar doors were opened, and the doorways framed the loveliest city that most of the Americans had ever s…

Author Susan Farrell shares 10 things writers should know about Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle.

In the history of the invention of the typesetting machine and the consequent birth of mass media, Mark Twain is the Zelig of our tale, returning frequently as a typesetter in his brother’s ratty n…

Banned, burned, and censored, Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five is widely regarded as one of the greatest (and most controversial) novels of the tw…

How did a Dresden slaughterhouse and a 1960s alien abduction case shape Kurt Vonnegut's literary masterpiece? In this blog post, Susan Farrell explores the gripping real history and cultural context b...

Author Susan Farrell shares 10 things writers should know about Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle.