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“His memoirs, novels, and short stories express, in infinite variety, the human struggle to reconcile the truth we wish for with the one we get.”

Today marks the 12th anniversary of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ death. Jobs died at his Palo Alto, California home on October 5, 2011…

"Wellness: A novel," looks at a 20-year relationship between Elizabeth and Jack, from their initial meeting as lonely students in Chicago in 1993 to their turbulent marriage in 2014.

The temporary state of feeling shame when we realize that we have lost standing in someone’s eyes because we have done something wrong can be redemptive. As the theologian Lewis Smedes writes, “A healthy sense of shame is perhaps the surest sign of our divine origin and our human dignity. When we feel this sense of shame, we are feeling a nudge from our true selves.”

In Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs, we are told the story of Abdulfattah Jandali who ran a Mediterranean restaurant in California. He was a Syrian immigrant, balding and intelligent, with fierce eyes and round, wire-rimmed glasses. After coming to America, Jandali earned a PhD in economics. He got a job as…

The Mississippi Book Festival returns for its ninth year August 19, 2023 with over 150 authors and a selection of panels and family-friendly activities.

There is more than one way to read the title of Mona Simpson’s seventh novel Commitment, a multigenerational family saga set mainly in California in the 1970s and 1980s. There is the ‘hospital commitment’ Diane Aziz, a single mother of three teenage children, needs after sinking into a deep depression shortly after her eldest, Walter,

Looking for the perfect summer read? We asked local experts for their fiction and nonfiction picks.

Author Mona Simpson reflects on the thrill of flea-market finds with her best friend and then, years later, learning to pare back.

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