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Her latest novel appears to savage a celebrity. But Cusk has, once again, managed to turn herself into the victim.

A new publication tries hard to reinvent Kusama as a champion of racial equity despite her troubling record of anti-Black statements.

Literary podcasts have established themselves as a place for insightful conversations about books and reading. For this virtual event, representatives of five bookish podcasts will discuss the ways in...

Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.

Higashino, a prolific writer lauded for his creativity, died of cancer, his official X account said.

O júri do mais importante prémio para a literatura em língua portuguesa, que distingue anualmente um autor pelo conjunto da sua obra, esteve reunido durante esta quinta-feira à tarde.

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Tycoon’s media empire accused of pushing far-right ideas, as writers say: ‘We refuse to be hostages in ideological war’

Things We Lost to the Water — Nguyen, Eric, 1988- — "When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle into life in America, she continues to send letters and tapes back to Cong, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up with a father. Over time, Huong realizes she will never see Cong again. While she copes with this loss, her sons, Tuan and Binh, grow up in their absent father's shadow, haunted by a man and a country trapped in their memory and imagination. As they push forward, the three adapt to life in America in different ways: Huong takes up with a Vietnamese car salesman who is also new in town; Tuan tries to connect with his heritage by joining a local Vietnamese gang; and Binh, now going by Ben, embraces his burgeoning sexuality. Their search for identity--as individuals and as a family--tears them apart, until disaster strikes and they must find a new way to come together and honor the ties that bind them"--

Was going to post this on Substack, but they don't let you indent blocks of text.     Today’s insanely long installmen...

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The New York Times has cut ties with a freelancer of his reliance on AI.

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El Alboroto es una nueva sección en español que forma parte de The Rumpus. La revista busca publicar voces innovadoras y textos que quizás no encajan en publicaciones más tradicionales. Nos interesa e...

For this special online issue, we asked for your dirtiest work: scandalous rivalries, dirty jobs, meditations on the muck and mire of everyday life, plain old sediment, and musings on humanity’s more ...

After 20 years at The Washington Post, I’m suddenly on my own — and still writing about books.

The famous thinker spoke to EL PAÍS to clarify that he is not the ostentatious figure that he believes some articles have made him out to be

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