Books
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A Powerful Story of Coming to America, Finding Promise and Paradox
“Why was America so kind and yet so cruel?” Carlos Bulosan wrote in “America Is in the Heart,” his 1943…
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Paradise Was Lost. She’s Telling Its Stories.
Images of the wildfire that devastated Paradise, Calif., in 2018 are hard to forget. Known as the Camp Fire —…
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Andrea Elliott on ‘Invisible Child’
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to Listen In 2013, the front page of The New York…
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Read More About Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Books
Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. He is the fifth African to receive the prize…
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Abdulrazak Gurnah Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday to Abdulrazak Gurnah for “his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the…
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For Sutton Foster, Crochet Is a Survival Tactic
Sutton Foster is finishing up a 15-week run at the Barbican as Reno Sweeney in “Anything Goes,” a role for…
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Finalists Announced for This Year’s National Book Awards
A food memoir that examines a mother’s schizophrenia. A novel about an author’s book tour, and about growing up as…
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Three Married Couples and a Cryptic Headmistress Fuel the Suburban Satire of ‘The Pessimists’
We all have our personal favorite lengths. When it comes to movies, I like 90 minutes. Pop songs: three minutes.…
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‘Major Labels’ Wraps Popular Music — All of It — in a Warm Embrace
It’s rare for a book of poetry in America to get a negative review. It’s always been so. The field…
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An Erotica Pioneer Goes From Hero to Villain for Dozens of Authors
Anne Wills was a mother of four who doted on her children, was an active volunteer with a youth swim…