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Author Salman Rushdie has lost vision in one eye and the use of one hand following his stabbing in New York in August, his agent says.

Fairfax Media via Getty Images In the 72-year history of the National Book Awards, there have been 79 winners in the fiction category--only 19 of which have been women. The awards, considered some of the most prestigious for literature in the country,...

The French author is the 17th woman to win the prize

The man accused of stabbing novelist Salman Rushdie last week in western New York pleaded not guilty to second-degree attempted murder and assault charges and was held without bail.

The author was severely injured after being stabbed on stage at an event in New York state.

Despite the decades and distance between bans on this book and the others, the rise in attempts to ban and censor books in America in 2022 looks an awful lot like what South African censors did during apartheid.

"Loving Highsmith" takes an in-depth look at Highsmiths relationships with women, as well as her position in the queer literary canon.

The Courant's arts picks for May 8-14 includes shows at Sea Tea Comedy Theater, Hole in the Wall Theatre and the Yale Repertory Theatre.

Rebecca Donner's book, All The Frequent Troubles of Our Days, is about the author's great-great aunt Mildred Harnack-Fish, who gave her life to resisting Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.

From Succession and Total Control to Albert Camus’ The Plague - here’s what we read and watched this year.