What We Are Reading Today: ‘Overwhelmed’ by Maurice S. Lee

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What happens to literature during an information revolution? How do readers and writers adapt to proliferating data and texts? These questions appear uniquely urgent today in a world of information overload, big data, and the digital humanities. But as Maurice Lee shows in “Overwhelmed,” these concerns are not new—they also mattered in the nineteenth century, … Read more

UK police ‘assessing’ alleged Islamophobic hate speech by MP Lee Anderson

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LONDON: Police in the UK are “assessing” hate speech allegations made against MP Lee Anderson, after he suggested that “Islamists” had taken control of London and the city’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, Sky News reported on Wednesday. Anderson was suspended by the ruling Conservative Party on Saturday after he refused to apologize for the remarks, which … Read more