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'On Her Game' is Christine Brennan's portrait of basketball star Caitlin Clark
In 2024, ratings for the NCAA women's basketball final topped the men's final by 4 million viewers – and Caitlin Clark was largely responsible. Ameri…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Short story collection 'Heart Lamp' is the winner of the International Booker Prize
Heart Lamp, this year's International Booker Prize winner, is the first short story collection to receive the award. It is also the first time the pr…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
In Sophie Elmhirst's 'A Marriage at Sea,' a couple tries to keep themselves afloat
In 1972, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey set out from England to sail around the world. Partway through the voyage, a whale knocked a hole in their boat, …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Through politics, fiction and her latest novel, Stacey Abrams aims to inspire action
Avery Keene has unraveled international conspiracies and investigated mysteries involving the Supreme Court, but now she's focused on what could be a…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
'No Sense in Wishing' and 'Hit Girls' consider the way culture shapes identity
Two new books explore how culture shapes our identity. First, Lawrence Burney's essay collection, No Sense in Wishing, is an appreciation of the arts…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
After 20 years, Mary Jo Bang has completed her translation of Dante's 'Divine Comedy'
About 20 years ago, Mary Jo Bang read a poem that inspired her to take on a translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. At first, she began with just three…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Mark Kurlansky's novel 'Cheesecake' was inspired by a recipe from ancient Rome
In Mark Kurlansky's novel Cheesecake, a Greek family living on Manhattan's Upper West Side sets out to follow a recipe dating back to ancient Rome. W…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
In her new memoir, Hala Alyan searches for home amid a family history of exile
Palestinian American writer Hala Alyan has a personal history of exile. Over the years, the author and her relatives have been displaced from their h…
9 months ago
Aisling Rawle's 'The Compound' follows characters on a semi-dystopian reality TV show
Aisling Rawle's The Compound explores reality television as a kind of dystopia. In the novel, a group of men and women live on a compound in the midd…
9 months ago
New biographies look at the careers of designers Claire McCardell and Virgil Abloh
Two new books look at the lives and careers of designers who revolutionized American fashion. First, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson is out with Claire Mc…
9 months ago