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Karen Russell: How Florida influences her fiction

May 9, 2019 at 4:19 p.m.

At 32, author Karen Russell is one of the youngest recipients of the MacArthur Foundation's annual "genius" grants, but she's already a lit-world veteran. Her novel "Swamplandia!" (Knopf, 2011) was...

"The Empire of Necessity" by Greg Grandin documents a group of West Africans' passage from Africa to the Americas to be sold into slavery.

‘The Empire of Necessity’ by Greg Grandin is our new Book of the Month

May 9, 2019 at 4:19 p.m.

When a sea captain named Amasa Delano boarded a distressed schooner called the Tryal in the South Pacific off the coast of Chile in 1805, he thought he was entering...

‘The Empire of Necessity’ by Greg Grandin is our new Book of the Month

December 23, 2018 at 3:41 p.m.

When a sea captain named Amasa Delano boarded a distressed schooner called the Tryal in the South Pacific off the coast of Chile in 1805, he thought he was entering...

Karen Russell: How Florida influences her fiction

December 23, 2018 at 3:40 p.m.

At 32, author Karen Russell is one of the youngest recipients of the MacArthur Foundation's annual "genius" grants, but she's already a lit-world veteran. Her novel "Swamplandia!" (Knopf, 2011) was...

Actress Kate Winslet was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance in the movie adaptation of Joyce Maynard's 2009 book "Labor Day."

Joyce Maynard and the life of pie

June 17, 2018 at 5:29 p.m.

In "Labor Day," the film adaptation of Joyce Maynard's 2009 novel, a depressed divorced woman named Adele (Kate Winslet in a Golden Globe-nominated performance) and her 13-year-old son Henry find...

While writing "Under the Wide and Starry Sky" and "Loving Frank," Nancy Horan thought of Mamah Borthwick Cheney and Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne as "women beside the men."

Loving Robert Louis Stevenson

May 9, 2019 at 4:18 p.m.

When her best-selling debut novel, "Loving Frank" — about Mamah Borthwick Cheney and her notorious extramarital affair with architect Frank Lloyd Wright — appeared in 2007, Nancy Horan seems to...

The title of Gary Shteyngart's new memoir, "Little Failure," comes from a nickname his mother gave him.

Gary Shteyngart on ‘Little Failure’

June 17, 2018 at 5:10 p.m.

If comedy springs from childhood misery, Gary Shteyngart, one of the funniest writers in America, must have had a truly awful childhood. And so he did, as we learn in...

Chang-rae Lee's new novel, "On Such a Full Sea," is set in a futuristic Baltimore calledl B-Mor.

Chang-rae Lee talks dystopian future of ‘On Such a Full Sea’

May 9, 2019 at 4:17 p.m.

In his previous novels — including "Native Speaker" (1995), "Aloft" (2004) and "The Surrendered," a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize — Chang-rae Lee has established a strong reputation as...

Review: ‘The Baby Boom’ by P.J. O’Rourke

May 9, 2019 at 4:16 p.m.

The Baby Boom, that largest of American generations, is a bundle of contradictions. Its signal characteristics are self-absorption and short attention spans, but also tolerance, nonviolence, a tendency toward political...

Review: ‘The Baby Boom’ by P.J. O’Rourke

December 23, 2018 at 3:04 p.m.

The Baby Boom, that largest of American generations, is a bundle of contradictions. Its signal characteristics are self-absorption and short attention spans, but also tolerance, nonviolence, a tendency toward political...

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