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Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning short story author, dies at 92

The Canadian writer was known for her masterfully crafted short stories. Throughout her long career, she earned a number of prestigious awards including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.(Image credit: Peter Muhly)

Tue May 14, 2024 20:27
What are 'the kids' thinking these days? Honor Levy aims to tell in 'My First Book'

Social media discourse and the inevitable backlash aside, the 26-year-old writer's first book is an amusing, if uneven, take on growing up white, privileged, and Gen Z.

Tue May 14, 2024 13:14
System of a Down's Serj Tankian on his memoir, why a new album hasn't come since 2005

System of a Down singer Serj Tankian covers fleeing the Lebanese Civil War as a child, advocating for recognition of the Armenian Genocide, and why his band hasn't made a new album since 2005.(Image credit: Travis Shinn)

Tue May 14, 2024 12:14
'Brotherless Night,' an ambitious novel about Sri Lankan civil war, wins $150K prize

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is a relatively new literary award given to women and nonbinary authors. This year's winner is V.V. Ganeshananthan for her book Brotherless Night.

Tue May 14, 2024 04:18
Kathleen Hanna on life as a 'Rebel Girl,' and the joy of expressing anger in public

The Bikini Kill frontwoman pioneered the "riot grrrl" movement in the 1990s. "I thought of myself as a feminist performance artist who was in a punk band," Hanna says.(Image credit: Rachel Bright)

Mon May 13, 2024 20:27
Claire Messud's sweeping novel borrows from her own 'Strange Eventful History'

Messud draws from her grandfather's handwritten memoir as she tells a cosmopolitan, multigenerational story about a family forced to move from Algeria to Europe to South and North America.

Mon May 13, 2024 19:09

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