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Mar 24, 2025 | bookandfilmglobe.com | Sharyn Vane

The Librarians deftly illuminates the last four years of organized and systemic censorship, a reality as alarming as the piles of burning books the film features onscreen. The documentary, which premiered at Sundance and recently screened at South by Southwest, spotlights the bibliophiles of its title as warriors in the fight for intellectual freedom. Administrators fired many of the librarians featured after they refused to take books off the shelves or questioned calls to cull their collections.

Mar 24, 2025 | bookandfilmglobe.com | Sharyn Vane

Too many shows, too few cooks, as food TV eats its own tail

Mar 5, 2025 | bookandfilmglobe.com | Sharyn Vane

“The Arts … belong to all the people of the United States,” proclaims the 1965 legislation that created what is now the National Endowment for the Arts. Well, we’ll see. As of early March, the quote still occupied prime real estate on the NEA’s grants page. But the Trump Administration has eliminated one grant program and changed the rules for others, spurring artists and other critics to worry about the future of federal funding for projects by and about marginalized communities. The Feb.

Mar 5, 2025 | bookandfilmglobe.com | Sharyn Vane

Arts guidelines and grant structures are changing as rapidly as everything else in the U.S.