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Yesterday โ€” 6 November 2026Main stream

Albertaโ€™s Librarians Brace for a New Era of โ€˜Book Bansโ€™

6 November 2026 at 14:41
A new provincial law requires public libraries to pull and restrict items with โ€œgraphic visual depictions of sexual acts.โ€ Librarians argue the mandate opens the door to censorship.

ยฉ Todd Korol for The New York Times

Sarah Meilleur is the chief executive of Calgary Public Library, the largest of Albertaโ€™s 221 municipal library boards.
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Senji Kuroi Has Died. He Interpreted โ€˜the Salaried Soul.โ€™

4 November 2026 at 18:23
In books and essays, he captured the unease beneath Japanโ€™s economic miracle and wrote about everyday people who might never appear in headlines.

ยฉ The Asahi Shimbun, via Getty Images

Senji Kuroi in 1972. He published dozens of novels, short-story collections and essays, earning major Japanese literary prizes.

The Ecologist Surveying What NYC Looked Like Before the Concrete

1 November 2026 at 08:00
The ecologist Eric W. Sanderson surveys the historical landscape of New York in a new book that, at 900,000 words, is as massive as the city it chronicles.

ยฉ Vincent Alban/The New York Times

Eric W. Sanderson, a man in his habitat, told the story of Manhattan more than a decade ago. His new book, โ€œBefore New York,โ€ takes the measure of the city in full, from its earliest days.

AO3 Fan Fiction Site Is Hacked and Could Be Offline for Weeks

31 October 2026 at 21:04
Home to tales inspired by the likes of โ€œHarry Potterโ€ and โ€œHeated Rivalry,โ€ the archive was taken down after โ€œan intrusion,โ€ one of its founders said. It could be down for weeks.

Taking the Saga of a Criminal Gang From Page to Screen to Opera Stage

30 October 2026 at 09:02
Italians canโ€™t get enough of โ€œRomanzo Criminale,โ€ a best-selling novel that has been made into a hit film, a bigger hit TV show and now, an opera.

ยฉ Michele Monastra/New Press/IPA Agency, via Shutterstock

โ€œRomanzo Criminale,โ€ an opera based on the best-selling novel, at the Maggio Musicale theater in Florence, Italy, this month.
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