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Five Louise Glück Poems to Get You Started
The American writer, who won a Nobel Prize in 2020, wrote with cool clarity and often puckish wit.
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Newyork
Louise Meriwether Dies at 100; in 1970, a New, Black Literary Voice
Writing of life in Harlem, she emerged at the same time as Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou but never achieved their fame, though James Baldwin was an admirer.
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Frankfurt Book Fair Cancels Award Ceremony for Palestinian Author
Organizers cited the Israel-Hamas war as the reason for stepping back from honoring a novel about the 1949 murder of a Palestinian girl by Israeli soldiers.
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Newyork
Behind the Most Famous Men in Economics There Have Always Been Women
When the Nobel Committee awarded its prize in economics on Monday to the Harvard professor Claudia Goldin — the first woman to receive the award solo — it was both a vindication of a storied career and a reminder of how male-dominated economics ...
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She Didn’t Even Have an Agent. Her Debut is a National Book Award Finalist.
“Temple Folk,” Aaliyah Bilal’s collection of stories featuring Black American Muslims, was inspired by her family’s experiences with the Nation of Islam.
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Justin Torres Finds Inspiration in the Erasures of Queer History
Any sense of anonymity that Justin Torres had enjoyed as an author was on the verge of vanishing. Shortly before the release of his debut novel, “We the Animals,” in 2011, critics were starting to praise him and his slim, semi-autobiographical book ...
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The First Magazine for Black Children Is Revisited, Its Message Still Resonant
An anthology that combines new work with selections from The Brownies’ Book, a children’s magazine launched by W.E.B. Du Bois, is bringing its mission to bear in a new national context.
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Ann Patchett Isn’t Parting With WordPerfect
The best-selling novelist refuses to yield when it comes to writing software, but she’s had a bit of a change of heart on Barnes & Noble.
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Michael Lewis Doesn’t Do Villains
A hike is Michael Lewis’s interview format of choice. When he first met the FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in late 2021, he took the cargo-shorted chief executive on a walk through the eucalyptus trees near his Berkeley, Calif., home. According to Mr ...