Read Your Way Through Accra
Bus stations. Traffic stops. Beaches. There’s no telling where you’ll find the next story in Accra, Ghana’s capital. Peace Adzo Medie shares some of her favorites.
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CreditRaphaelle Macaron 4 Books to Make You Fall in Love With Poetry
Gregory Cowles, the poetry editor of The New York Times Book Review, recommends four books that are perfect for National Poetry Month.
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Parenting in a Pandemic, and Other Tales of Woe
Gillian Linden’s slim debut novel, “Negative Space,” explores the being and nothingness of modern motherhood.
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A nonprofit that distributed books for many of the country’s small presses has closed, and the fallout could affect the publishing industry in ways both big and small.
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For Caleb Carr, Salvation Arrived on Little Cat’s Feet
As he struggled with writing and illness, the “Alienist” author found comfort in the feline companions he recalls in a new memoir, “My Beloved Monster.”
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In “The Invention of Prehistory,” the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell us more about us than them.
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A new omnibus compiles the poet’s books and unpublished work, including his two-part autobiographical masterpiece, “Genesis.”
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Barbara Joans, Anthropologist Who Studied Biker Culture, Dies at 89
In her 60s, she hit the open road on a hulking Harley-Davidson and found a new area of academic research: bikers, and in particular, women bikers.
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Critic’s NotebookKeith Haring’s Legacy Is Not Found at the Museum
Three decades after his death, his work is still sold on products and in stores. But his concept of public art is most powerfully preserved on the street.
By Max Lakin
Sophie Kinsella, ‘Shopaholic’ Author, Says She Has Brain Cancer
The author of the best-selling book series said she had been undergoing treatment for glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, after a diagnosis in 2022.
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Book Bans Continue to Surge in Public Schools
More books were removed during the first half of this academic year than in the entire previous one.
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There’s more than blarney in Caoilinn Hughes’s riotous, ambitiously structured new novel.
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These Gay Novels Offer a ‘More Interesting Conversation’ About Faith
Recent books by Allen Bratton, Daniel Lefferts and Garrard Conley depict gay Christian characters not usually seen in queer literature.
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“The Spoiled Heart,” by Sunjeev Sahota, contrasts race and class struggles in the story of a man’s downfall.
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