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Eliza Griswold writes for The New Yorker and teaches at Princeton University. Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. Seamus Murphy/Macmillan hide caption
How culture wars divided one small progressive church in Philadelphia
"I'm not haunted by him, even in the most benign sense," Nick Harkaway says of his father, John le Carré. "I grieve occasionally. That doesn't go away. It just gets manageable." Nadav Kander/Penguin Random House hide caption
After John le Carré's death, his son had the 'daunting' task to revive George Smiley
Journalist Rebecca Nagle poses next to her new book, By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land Photo credit: Brittany Bendabout hide caption
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Even in death, Alexei Navalny hasn't given up the fight against corruption in Russia
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A housemaid is suspected of killing a child in 'Clean,' a novel about class and power
A housemaid is suspected of killing a child in 'Clean,' a novel about class and power
Michel Houellebecq says Annihilation will be his last novel. Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A polarizing, provocative French novelist says he’s written his last book
Horror author Stephen King has been scaring audiences for generations. Eric Feferberg/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Bob Woodward at the 2021 Audi Innovation Series at The Ritz Carlton on November 10, 2021 in Washington, DC. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Audi Canada hide caption
Mosab Abu Toha and his wife and children are currently living in Syracuse, N.Y., where he is a fellow at the University of Syracuse. Penguin Random House hide caption
Elvis Presley poses with wife Priscilla and daughter Lisa Marie, in a room at Baptist hospital in Memphis, Tenn., on Feb. 5, 1968. AP/AP hide caption
Riley Keough helps mom Lisa Marie Presley emerge from Elvis' shadow in a new memoir
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Modest moments become revelatory in the wry and incisive 'Shred Sisters'
The cover of Song of Myself: A Novel by Arnie Kantrowitz Tatiana Fernandez/Sentinel Voices hide caption
South Korean author Han Kang in Seoul, South Korea, in 2016. Kang has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Lee Jin-man/AP hide caption
Some people with anxiety find horror movies helpful. The films can focus their minds in a controlled environment that they can overcome. Crazytang/Getty Images hide caption
Margaret Atwood says she doesn't feel envy toward others but has experienced people being envious of her. Mike Coppola/Getty Images hide caption
Elvis tribute artists on stage in Porthcawl in Wales. Robbie Griffiths/NPR hide caption
Visiting the world's biggest Elvis festival in — unexpectedly — a small town in Wales
"Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body?" Melania Trump asks in her new memoir, according to an early excerpt published by The Guardian. The former first lady is seen here at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 18. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of MAd Science by Kate McKinnon
Ta-Nehisi Coates teaches at Howard University, where he's the Sterling Brown endowed chair in the English department. Carol Lee Rose/Getty Images hide caption