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12 female literary powerhouses to headline Emirates Airline Festival of Literature

Perhaps no other literature festival promises to be as intellectually stimulating and culturally entertaining as the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in Dubai.

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VIDEO: Polygamy exists in several cultures, says Nigerian author Lola Shoneyin during Sharjah’s #BookTalks event

Nigerian novelist and poet Lola Shoneyin was at #BookTalks at Al Rawi Café in Sharjah discussing her multiple award-winning debut novel, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, which explores the structure and effects of polygamy in Nigeria.

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‘How Quickly She Disappears,’ by Raymond Fleischmann

Something ominous happens in the opening pages of “How Quickly She Disappears” and it’s not immediately clear whether it’s the good kind of ominous.

18 Jan 2020

New Book shares early stories written by Zora Neale Hurston

The fiction writer-anthropologist-folklorist died in a segregated Florida hospital in January 1960, so forgotten and impoverished that her work was out of print and her grave left unmarked.

16 Jan 2020

Meet Kiley Reid, the Philly author whose novel ‘Such a Fun Age’ is about to take over the world

As a teenager growing up in Tucson, Ariz., author Kiley Reid wrote several stories with the same plot: teenagers escaping the watchful eye of their parents and making out with each other.

15 Jan 2020

Rare 1623 book featuring works of the Bard to go up for auction

The book that brought together William Shakespeare's works for the first time will go up for auction in April, Christie's auction house announced on Friday.

13 Jan 2020

‘The Book of Science and Antiquities,’ by Thomas Keneally

Australian writer Thomas Keneally can be a hard sell. Brilliant, visionary and astoundingly prolific, he has written such bestsellers as “Schindler’s List” and “The Daughters of Mars,” as well as more than 40 other books.

12 Jan 2020

‘Why We Can’t Sleep,’ by Ada Calhoun

Now Calhoun, the author of a memoir, “The Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give,” and an urban history, “St. Marks Is Dead,” explores the issue in depth in her latest book, “Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis.”

11 Jan 2020

Laurie Hertzel: Looking forward to the books of 2020

Here’s a taste of some of the books that we are most looking forward to in the first few months of 2020. And when you finish all of these books — or some of these books — you can look up and realize that yes, it is spring. And there are more books ahead.

07 Jan 2020

From Michelle Obama to E.L. James, women ruled the decade in books

There are many lenses through which to look at books in the decade just past. But one thing is certain: Women writers were a powerful force.

05 Jan 2020

Barack Obama releases list of his favorite books of 2019

President Obama, known as an avid reader, continued his tradition of releasing a list of his favorite books of the year. He also mentioned the collected works of Toni Morrison, to whom he awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.

04 Jan 2020