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The International Booker Prize celebrates fiction that's been translated into English. This year's shortlist, announced Tuesday morning, features books in six languages from three continents ..read more
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The 2024 Whiting Award winners were announced Wednesday night. Below are excerpts from their work ..read more
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In her new novel, Leigh Bardugo drags readers into a world of servitude, magic, power struggles, and intrigue — one where there isn't a single character that doesn't have a secret agenda ..read more
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Ursula Villarreal-Moura's debut novel movingly portrays its protagonist coming to terms with an imbalanced, difficult, and sometimes harmful friendship that was also a key part of her life for years ..read more
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Juleus Ghunta is a published children's author and award-winning poet. But growing up, he could barely read. That was until a teacher saw his potential ..read more
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Juleus Ghunta is a published children's author and award-winning poet. But growing up, he could barely read. That was until a teacher saw his potential ..read more
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Nearly two years after the renowned author was stabbed on stage in Chautauqua, N.Y., Rushdie's new memoir unpacks everything he's been feeling since the attack ..read more
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Reporter Jake Adelstein's memoir about covering the organized crime beat in Japan is the basis of the Max series , now in its second season. Originally broadcast Nov. 9, 2009 ..read more
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Experts say it's better to set a goal you can stick to and make reading more of a community affair ..read more
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, centers two sisters in their 20s struggling with the love, anxieties and truths that they hold about each other ..read more