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The novel is Matthiessen’s first, though she’s a published nonfiction writer and memoirist. It’s ambitious and informed though somewhat diffuse in intention and effect: perhaps too much attempted in ...

A 1910 watercolor portrait of Belle da Costa Greene by Laura Coombs Hills. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, gift of the ...

Gretchen Anthony is one of the Minnesota authors who will appear at the inaugural Words by the Water event in May.

Celebrate Black History Month with a good book. Our readers recommended 50+ stories to dive into this February and beyond.

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James Martin once revealed the ideal country he would like to retire in - and there have been other hints about a possible ...

French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud faces invasion of privacy lawsuit by Algerian massacre survivor, sparking tensions between ...

Acclaimed writer Kamel Daoud is being sued in France for invasion of privacy by an Algerian survivor of a 1990s massacre in ...

NOTTINGHAM FOREST flop Hwang Ui-jo has landed a prison sentence – after a court found him guilty of illegally filming his ...

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