Oct 15 How one corporation exploited the amendment that was meant to protect former slaves By Elizabeth Flock Corporations have often leveraged progressive reforms to serve the ends of business, says author Adam Winkler. "Perhaps more surprising is that corporations have also been innovators in constitutional law."… Continue reading
Oct 14 Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo share Booker Prize By Jill Lawless, Associated Press The judging panel ripped up the rulebook and refused to name one winner for the prestigious fiction trophy. Continue reading
Oct 10 2 Nobel literature prize winners expose Europe’s fault lines By Jill Lawless, David Keyton, Associated Press The two winners were a liberal Pole who has irked her country's conservative government and an Austrian accused by many liberals of being an apologist for Serbian war crimes. Continue reading
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