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Sales of romance novels were up in 2022, while overall book sales hit their first decline in three years proxyminder/Getty Images hide caption
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Want to be a writer? This bleak but buoyant guide says to get used to rejection
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Want to be a writer? This bleak but buoyant guide says to get used to rejection
It's a full house for this newly reconvened romance book club in Baltimore. Catie Dull/NPR hide caption
From meet-cutes to happy endings, romance readers feel the love as sales heat up
Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg waits in Erkelenz, Germany, to take part in a demonstration at a nearby a coal mine on Jan. 14. Michael Probst/AP hide caption
Stokely Carmichael, shown here in 1967, helped popularize the term "Black Power!" in 1966. AFP via Getty Images hide caption
How Stokely Carmichael and the Black Panthers changed the civil rights movement
Salman Rushdie's 'Victory City' is a triumph, independent of the Chautauqua attack
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A showbiz striver gets one more moment in the spotlight in 'Up With the Sun'
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A showbiz striver gets one more moment in the spotlight in 'Up With the Sun'
The Wife of Bath from The Ellesmere Manuscript, one of the earliest manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. The Huntington Library hide caption
A Wife of Bath 'biography' brings a modern woman out of the Middle Ages
Novelist Julie Otsuka draws on her own family history in 'The Swimmers'
Pamela Anderson attends the premiere of Netflix's "Pamela, a love story". Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images hide caption
An artisanal miner carries a sack of ore at the Shabara artisanal mine near Kolwezi, DRC, on Oct. 12, 2022. Junior Kannah/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
How 'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy
As soda consumption has dropped in the West, companies are making an effort to woo new customers in other places. This Coke bottle ad is in Mozambique. Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images hide caption
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were engaged in 2017 Chris Jackson/Getty Images hide caption
Former President Donald Trump is suing Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward over Woodward's latest book, The Trump Tapes. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Audi Canada and Scott Eisen/Getty Images hide caption