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A woman sets out to uncover the truth about her mother’s disappearance in this genre-hopping celebration of visual storytelling

The subjects of race, identity and belonging are often fraught with contention and uneasiness. Who are you? Who belongs? Who is native, or indigenous to a place? These perennial questions arise around the world.

Book banning is on the rise; Illinois has a law against it, but individuals get around the law with their own personal book bans.

Booker-winning novelist describes the process of screening out things that might offend readers as ‘mass hysterias’ and ‘moral panics’ that ‘sweep through populations every now and then’

Paul Harding’s Maine-based historical novel “This Other Eden,” Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s dystopian “Chain-Gang All-Stars” and Justin Torres' multi-generational “Blackouts” are among the fiction finalists for the National Book Awards

Winners from 25 finalists across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature will be announced in November

Historically Black Phrases breaks down sayings and metaphors created and popularized by the community, giving it due credit

At a glittering function in Kochi, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan released a compilation of literary critic M.K. Sanoo's complete works. Mr. Sanoo expressed gratitude to those who had shown their love and appreciation. Mr. Vijayan praised Mr. Sanoo's unparalleled personality and contributions to society, noting the collective works are a…

Sally Rooney, Ian Williams, and Lauren Groff are just a few of the contemporary authors avoiding quotation marks for dialogue

Héctor Oesterheld and his family were murdered under the military dictatorship. As Netflix adapts his beloved El Eternauta, his literary legacy is dragged into the culture wars