Writer George Orwell, author of the novel 1984, which portrays a dictatorship that imposes its own facts. Uncredited/AP hide caption
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'1984' Tops Amazon Bestseller List After Trump Aide's 'Alternative Facts'
Rep. John Lewis stands in the Civil Rights Room in the Nashville Public Library in Nashville, Tenn. The American Library Association announced Monday that the Georgia Democrat received four prizes Monday for March: Book Three, the last of a graphic trilogy about his civil rights activism and winner last fall of a National Book Award. Mark Humphrey/AP hide caption
Publisher Simon & Schuster drew strong criticism after signing conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos — seen here holding a press conference about the Pulse nightclub shootings. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
Free Speech Advocates, Publishers Wrestle With Questions Of Censorship
"Anger isn't something that is solely a rural, American, white guy emotion," says novelist Nickolas Butler. Below, he and Jennifer Haigh recommend books about a range of American experiences. NPR hide caption
Still Puzzled By The Election? Authors Prescribe Fiction For Better Understanding
Peter and Ezra, / you made a great team. / Together you brought a snowstorm / of your dreams. Lou Fancher and Steve Johnson/Penguin Random House hide caption
Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild is about Tea Party conservatives in Louisiana. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is about what it means to be black in America. Raquel Zaldivar/NPR hide caption
One Way To Bridge The Political Divide: Read The Book That's Not For You
Paul Beatty is the first American to win the U.K.'s Man Booker Prize for fiction for his novel The Sellout. Alastair Grant/AP hide caption
Novelist Paul Beatty Is First American To Win Britain's Man Booker Prize
'Truevine' Tells The Tale Of 2 Black Albino Brothers Forced To Work For The Circus
Swedish Academy Reveals Bob Dylan Wins 2016 Nobel Prize In Literature
Former Literature Nobel Prize Winners Express Love For The Craft
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