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Rae Giana Rashad imagines an alternate America in her first novel, “The Blueprint.”
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In “Brought Forth on This Continent” and “The Last Ships From Hamburg,” people fleeing violence and famine meet resistance in the United States.
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In her novels and story collections, she took a sharp, lightly ironic look at the class from which she came, the Southern upper bourgeoisie.
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From England and France to the deepest Arctic and northern China, these stories will transport you.
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The “Aya” series explores the pains and pleasures of everyday life in a working-class neighborhood in West Africa.
On the 25th anniversary of the director’s death, two film scholars have published “Kubrick: An Odyssey.”
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One of the first quadriplegic Harvard graduates, she became an author, professor and powerful voice for disabled people.
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He directed the Italian American studies program at Queens College — the first of its type in American academia — and wrote about his ethnic group in “Blood of My Blood.”
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“Dear Sister” and “My Side of the River” tell vastly different stories about ordinary people looking back on extraordinary circumstances.
The actor reads Michael Cunningham’s “Day,” a novel that visits a husband, wife and brother on the same day in April over three years.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The author of “Gothikana” isn’t going to reveal much. But she will share a useful tip for writing and life.
Vroman’s is a community landmark in Pasadena, Calif. Now, its longtime owner says he’s ready to turn over the reins.
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