The Fourth of July reminds us of how precious and dearly bought our freedoms are -- and why they’re worth protecting. So let ...

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Jeet Thayil's genre-defying work, The Elsewhereans, challenges literary norms, blending biography, autobiography, and ghost ...

International News Photos, wikimedia commons Documentarian and journalist Laurie Gwen Shapiro’s forthcoming book is about an ...

Even though July is usually a slower month in the book publishing world, there are still plenty of great new books, ...

In our age of distraction, the arts appear to be responding in kind, shrinking and streamlining themselves to capture what ...

The seeming decline of a certain type of novelist is much discussed and debated in the literary world. But the bigger ...

Sitting on the ornately decorated living room wall of Dagmar Grieder’s South Austin home is a little blond doll clad in a floral dress. It was the one her mother abruptly picked for her to take as ...

She was once called “the most dangerous woman in Africa.” But Andrée Blouin described herself as an African woman “inflamed by injustice” on a mission to free her continent from colonial rule. She was ...

Former monarch Juan Carlos I will publish "Reconciliation", his memoirs at the end of the year. The book will explore his ...

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The 24-year-old Portuguese-German actor moves naturally between cultures, languages, and identities, drawing on experiences ...