Items tagged with 'Controversy'

A contest asking for illustrations of “popular villainess Harley Quinn seemingly about to commit suicide while naked”, announced just days before the start of National Suicide Prevention Week.

Some see glorification. Some see journalism. What do you see?

The author has upset the Twittersphere with her tweets linking Islam and rape culture — oops.

A new X-Men #1 debuted to much critical acclaim last week, even though the all-female cast was a topic of heated debate early on.

Simon Horobin, a professor of English at Magdalen College, Oxford, shocked an audience at the Hay Festival when he suggested the spelling of “they’re”, “their” and “there” could be standardized.

A prominent atheist group hopes to diversify the religious reading material offered in cabins and other state lodgings. Will they succeed?

Philip Aidoo, a teacher at Eastern University Academy Charter School in Philadephia, bought James' book for the 14-year-old “after seeing it on his reading wish list”.

The discovery of an original printing of ‘The Revolt of Islam’ - an epic at nearly 5,000 lines - suggests someone other than the poet amended it.

Lena Dunham and her series 'Girls' are worthy of criticism, they just aren't getting the right kind.

Lena Dunham, the 26-year-old writer and star of HBO's 'Girls', invites quite a bit of derision on the internet. Maybe because other writers are mostly just jealous of her success?

The sign saying the cyclist’s books would be moved to the fiction section in a Sydney library was not ‘officially sanctioned’.