Oct 10 Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke By David Keyton, Associated Press Two Nobel Prizes in literature were announced because the 2018 literature award was postponed following sex abuse allegations that rocked the Swedish Academy. Continue reading
Oct 05 Writer called a Minnesota county ‘the worst place to live.’ Then he moved there By Megan Thompson After being convinced by locals to visit Red Lake County, Washington Post data reporter Christopher Ingraham found that he loved it. Continue reading
Sep 19 9 books about dance that will change how you see the art form By Elizabeth Flock Those who write about dance are trying to capture the specificity and physicality through words. A number of books can change our understanding. Continue reading
Sep 19 National Book Awards longlist includes titles on border wall, Tribe Called Quest By Hillel Italie, Associated Press Hanif Abdurraqib's best-selling chronicle of A Tribe Called Quest and a memoir by chef Iliana Regan are among the works on the nonfiction longlist for the National Book Awards, as well as Greg Grandin's "The End of the Myth" about… Continue reading
Sep 12 Watch 8:43 18 years after September 11th, an oral history that recalls the details For everyone old enough to remember September 11th, 2001, their experience of that catastrophic day is seared into memory. But details of what the victims, survivors and emergency responders endured have faded from national consciousness over time. Now, a powerful… Continue watching
Sep 09 Watch 7:45 Why Margaret Atwood saw this as the moment for ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ sequel By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport “The Testaments" is the greatly anticipated sequel to Margaret Atwood’s hit dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Though it’s fiction, Atwood says she doesn't "put anything in that doesn’t have a precedent in human history.” Jeffrey Brown spoke with Atwood recently… Continue watching
Sep 09 Margaret Atwood on the dystopian novels that inspired her to write ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ By Joshua Barajas Margaret Atwood shared some of the other influential dystopian fiction that helped lay the groundwork for “The Handmaid’s Tale," with the author nodding to the work of George Orwell, H.G. Wells, Ursula K. Le Guin, among others. Continue reading
Sep 05 Watch 6:01 What 3 generations of a Filipino family prove about poverty and migration For some families, ensuring economic stability requires a wrenching choice: to leave children behind and find work abroad. Author Jason DeParle has written a book, “A Good Provider is One Who Leaves,” that traces three generations of a single Filipino… Continue watching
Sep 05 Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders lands book deal By Associated Press St. Martin's Press announced Thursday that her memoir, currently untitled, will come out in Fall 2020. Continue reading
Aug 28 Watch 7:51 Celeste Ng and Maxine Hong Kingston answer your questions about ‘The Woman Warrior’ Celeste Ng, author of “Little Fires Everywhere,” and Maxine Hong Kingston, author of "The Woman Warrior," join Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions about our August pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This. Ng selected “The… Continue watching