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On April 10, award-winning poet Dante Micheaux visited the Illini Union Bookstore and read a selection of his poems to an audience.

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The philosopher and biographer analyzes works of life-writing that straddle fact and fiction, and what makes them art.

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To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

It took a decade to write this book, grappling with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime," Smith said of the forthcoming ...