Black Swan / 2007 Pages: 554 This book is a historical fiction novel by the Australian author Markus Zuzak, set in Nazi ...

This week’s story, “ The Queen of Bad Influences ,” opens in 1913, in the English county of Gloucestershire, and is about a young woman called Constance who has recently left an all-girls’ school and ...

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“The point of my going away is that immeasurably more will open up. If I don’t go, the Holy Spirit won’t come,” says Jesus, in effect. “If you cling to me as a human friend, a warm presence, that’s ...

Celebrated Kenyan writer and decolonial scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o passed away on 28 May at the age of 87. Many tributes and ...

The International Booker Prize’s practice of sharing credit and prize money equally between author and translator is ...

The book, thus, not only looks at the past through its creative web of connections, which is both deep and surprisingly light ...

Joe Abercrombie, the author behind The First Law and The Age of Madness trilogies, among other fantasy novels, brought ...

All Robert Friedrichs had to go on was a stage name printed under an archival newspaper photo of her posing with other Las Vegas showgirls.