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Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: “Victory, Victory” and “The ...
He helped lead the Latin American “boom” of literary fiction in the 1960s, a burst of creativity and stylistic ...
Grandparents today have a certain reputation, Elena (who asked to withhold her last name to protect her family’s privacy) ...
A book which I recently read, Weep for Africa by Jeremy Hall ... Botha lamented as Afrikaner friends, former comrades and even family members, exchanged shot and shell while the rebels persisted in ...
In the Welsh village of Hay-on-Wye, where sheep outnumber people and books spill onto the streets, a quiet revolution began. Antiquarian and academic Richard Booth inadvertently launched a global ...
However, in 2022, before Fontaine and his research team were able to draw any conclusions, the manuscript was sold at an ...
Hanks — a journalist, and yes, also the daughter of Tom — recalls driving the highway 10 across the southwest as she tries to make sense of her unstable upbringing and the life and death of ...
In ‘Searches,’ Vauhini Vara collaborates with a chatbot to write essays on digital technology, surveillance capitalism and her family’s immigrant experience. In “Close to Home,” Thor ...
And for binge watchers, it’s also the perfect chance to study up by diving into the books that are being adapted into movies and TV shows in 2025. Here are some of the thrillers, romances ...
Maybe it’s more accurate to say that they made the Western their own. Spaghetti Westerns are, after all, a cousin to American Westerns in terms of style, content, themes and morality.
Mario Vargas Llosa, who has died aged 89, was the last of a golden generation of Latin American novelists, a Nobel Laureate, ...