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LA Times » 2 weeks ago
Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one of the most influential literary organizations in the U.S....
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LA Times » 2 weeks ago
To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best nonfiction books since the festival was inaugurated....
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LA Times » 2 weeks ago
In our survey about the best books since 1996, a number of authors split the vote — among their own titles. Here are 10 prolific pens that deserved an honorable mention....
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LA Times » 2 weeks ago
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for decades, has died, his son said Sunday....
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
The book about the trial of William Corder, publicly executed and dissected after being convicted of murdering his lover, is bound using his skinA second copy of a book bound in the skin of a notorious 19th-century murderer is now on display at a Suffolk museum....
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
His breakthrough book was deemed too inflammatory to be taught in my school, and was burned by authorities, but this Peruvian firebrand would reveal himself to be a man of contradictionsThe early 1960s was, for my generation in Argentina, an age of discovery when, in our ...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
Skewed interpretations of classic works are feeding the dark visions of tech moguls, from Musk to ThielOne can only imagine the horror the late Iain Banks would have felt on learning his legendary Culture series is a favourite of Elon Musk. The Scottish author was an outs...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
An actor’s story becomes a thrillingly radical deconstruction of family relationships and the social roles we playThere is an eeriness to great acting. Studied movements take on life; a living other emerges. Bad acting achieves no such uncanniness. Excessively self-consci...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
A deft, documentary-like portrait of 70s and 80s Black British culture outside LondonLanre Bakare’s first book is not just a work of history – it is a necessary and urgent recalibration of the way we think about Black Britain. Too often...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
The tale of a 17-year-old Irish boy’s painful summer of romance and uncertain friendship captures the tenderness and menace of young menI wouldn’t wish the pains of being a 17-year-old boy on my worst enemy. The awkward longing, the spots, the insecurity: it’s en...
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