National Book Awards honor works examining past, present of the Middle East

The nonfiction winner considers Gaza and the West; other winners include Rabih Alameddine, Daniel Nayeri, Patricia Smith ...

Shakespeare it ain't! The most toe-curling poetry written by celebrities - as RFK Jr's raunchy 'love letters' to journalist are exposed

Robert F Kennedy Jr, 71, the nephew of former president John F Kennedy, has been accused of sending erotic poems to Olivia ...

Lewis LeMaster recounts stories of some Muskingum County men who served in World War I

The first Muskingum County man volunteered on April 10: “Rev. William C. Coleman is the first man from Muskingum County to ...

In Anne of Green Gables, I found the kindred spirits and queer prophets I needed

In the latest edition of Emerging Queer Voices, writer Julia Smeaton considers the impact of Lucy Maud Montgomery's novels on ...

Canadian Omar El Akkad wins U.S. National Book Award for ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’

National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide on Wednesday night, including Egyptian-Canadian novelist-journalist Omar El Akkad. The writer, who now lives in Oregon, received the non-fiction ...

Descendants obtain works of enslaved potter in landmark restitution deal

The family of enslaved potter David Drake — known as “Dave the Potter” — has reclaimed two rare stoneware jars he created in ...
The New Yorker

The Man Who Helped Make the American Literary Canon

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the country’s literature was widely considered provincial. Then Malcolm Cowley set ...