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Damon Galgut on Confronting South Africa's Racist History With Booker-Winning The Promise

The South African writer Damon Galgut was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize this week for his novel The Promise, which confronts the racist history of his native country through the story of a troubled Afrikaner...

By Eloise Barry November 5, 2021

South African Author Damon Galgut Wins Booker Prize for The Promise

(LONDON) — South African writer Damon Galgut won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Wednesday with The Promise, a novel about one white family’s reckoning with South Africa’s racist history. Galgut had been British...

By JILL LAWLESS/AP November 3, 2021

Paul Newman’s Recently Discovered Memoir Will Be Published in Fall 2022

(NEW YORK) — A memoir Paul Newman left unpublished in his lifetime will come out next fall. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Wednesday that the book, currently untitled, will include Newman's thoughts on “acting, directing,...

By Associated Press November 3, 2021

Here Are the 10 New Books You Should Read in November

Cozy reading season starts now, with a crop of stirring new books offering something for everyone to curl up with. For those looking to reflect on deeply unsettling recent history, there's Gary Shteyngart's new novel...

By Annabel Gutterman November 1, 2021

Why Emily Ratajkowski Didn’t Want to Write That 'Blurred Lines' Essay

Emily Ratajkowski wasn’t sure she wanted to write the story of what happened to her on the set of “Blurred Lines.” Earlier this month, a chapter from Ratajkowski’s forthcoming book, My Body, was leaked online....

By TIME Staff October 29, 2021

Darcie Little Badger Turns Our Darkest Realities Into Hopeful Fantasies

Darcie Little Badger has been shaped by stories—the stories passed down to her through generations of family members, the stories she devoured as a fantasy-obsessed kid, the stories she now writes in books for young...

By Annabel Gutterman October 29, 2021

Jason Reynolds On Illustrator Jerry Pinkney

Children’s book illustrator Jerry Pinkney, who died on Oct. 20 at the age of 81, was a cultural touchstone. Whether he was illustrating tales about Reverend Martin Luther King or Black cowboys, I don’t know...

By Jason Reynolds October 28, 2021

Emily Ratajkowski: How I Learned to Let Go

Growing up, I believed that my thoughts had an effect on everything, from the role I would get in the school play, to what my future would hold, to how tall I would grow. This...

By Emily Ratajkowski October 26, 2021

Alan Cumming Is Done With All the Queer Tropes

Alan Cumming is mid-sentence when he turns his camera and rolls up his sleeve. This is a Zoom interview of course, and he's at his home in the Catskills, where he and his husband have...

By Alex Rees October 19, 2021

David Chang and Priya Krishna Want You to Get Over Recipes

When chef, Momofuku restaurateur and irreverent media personality David Chang approached food journalist Priya Krishna with the idea to create a cookbook with a major twist—the book would have no recipes—she was deeply skeptical. It...

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