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Our list of the 222 best books of all time has personal picks from booksellers, as well as from acclaimed authors like Anne Tyler and George R.R. Martin.

Son struggles to keep his mother in the nursing care she needs, while facing his own eviction.

Eileen Myles, the scholar, author and UC San Diego professor emeritus, gathers up 'Pathetic Literature' across the centuries and curates a new genre.

Interwar Prague was an avant-garde hotbed, but the first exhibition of Czech art to take place at New York’s Museum of Modern Art was not devoted to Czech modernism.

Brazil's incoming president, Lula da Silva, is unlikely to govern the same way he did 20 years ago. Socio-economic conditions will likely push him toward moderation, which will benefit Brazil and the region.

“I got a copy of Edna O’ Brien’s ‘The Country Girls’ growing up, which hurried my puberty to a place where I thought differently about girls and women,” says the singer and frontman for U2, whose new memoir is “Surrender.” “I still do.”

TEACHERS, PREACHERS AND GREENS… THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE TO TRANSFORM AMERICA, America is in a life or death battle for its very soul, both in its public school classrooms and in its Christian church pews. Freedom is in the balance

In an interview with POPSUGAR, Puerto Rican music artist iLe shares how the pandemic and resilience Influenced her latest album "Nacarile."

  (This picture comes from Derek Sayer's upcoming book Postcards from Absurdistan.)In May 2021, Jill Massino and I organized a roundtable at the annual congr...

From Benjamin Zephaniah on Ain’t I a Woman to Elif Shafak on Orlando by Virginia Woolf – authors tell the story of the moment a book saved their life