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On his first trip to East Asia, award-winning author discusses 'truth' during literary appearances, Fang Aiqing reports.

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Over the last half-century, authors of Hispanic descent have contributed some classics to American literature with well-known titles

How vast individual wealth is amassed often hits its mark in biographies. We know the usual suspects: Carnegie, Rockefeller, Jobs. Within each is a story of a commodity or a

In “Trust,” Hernan Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, fiction and finance are bedfellows, constantly toying with a reader’s investment.

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Here are four novels that grandly challenge the notions of truth, perception, and objectivity. Great reading hours guaranteed. Trust by Hernan DiazThis new novel of Diaz is on the 2022 Booker list, and it’s got a Rashomon-effect structure that deftly plays with our notions of objective truth, his

HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL When I started writing this column, Trust by Hernan Diaz was on the 2022 Booker Prize Longlist, and I had begun reading this fascinating, Rashomon-effect novel. The Booker is considered one of the most prestigious literary awards handed out in this

Stories within stories evoke the intoxicating thrill of currency trading in 1920s America – and the inevitable misery caused