The fight against book bans and the effort to preserve the sharing of knowledge for America's children fuel Kim A. Snyder's The Librarians.
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An interview with The Pigeon Tunnel director Errol Morris about his film on David Cornwell, aka acclaimed spy novelist John le Carré.
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Umberto Eco: A Library of the World profiles late Italian writer, philosopher, book lover, and keeper of collective memory.
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Screening Nature and Nation: The Environmental Documentaries of the National Film Board, 1939-1974 by Michael D. Clemens offers a thorough study of key NFB films and their relationship to environmentalism in Canada.
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Keep ReadingIn his wittily titled The Tower of Babble, the CBC's Richard Stursberg has written a breezy, insightful and unabashedly self-serving business-bookcum-memoir of his tempestuous tenure.
Keep ReadingShoot It!: Hollywood Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film by film journalist David Spaner, ambitiously explores international indie movements from the 1940s onward.
Keep ReadingThe Queer Film Classic series is the brainchild of Montreal-based editors Matthew Hays and Thomas Waugh covering films like Zero Patience and Fire.
Keep ReadingThe debate that documentaries engender by helping us to understand media manipulation is legitimate. The question remains, who owns the truth?
Keep ReadingDid Barney Rosset the founder of Grove Press, which published Candy, Henry Miller, The Story of O, William Burroughs and Victorian erotica, make obscene books? Or masterpieces?
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