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Review: Laird Barron returns with an often bleak novel

"Black Mountain" (Putnam), by Laird Barron Like a lyricist, Laird Barron excels at manipulating the tones and cadence of ...

Review: Anna Quindlen tours the wild world of grandparenting

"Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting," by Anna Quindlen (Random House) "Write what you know." Few follow that advice ...

Review: A gravesite meeting starts David Baldacci's thriller

"Redemption" by David Baldacci (Grand Central) In David Baldacci's latest, Amos Decker and his FBI partner Alex Jamison ...

John Lukacs, iconoclastic historian, dead at 95

John Lukacs, the Hungarian-born historian and iconoclast who brooded over the future of Western civilization, wrote a ...

Award to drop name of author tied to sterilization movement

The Vermont Department of Libraries says it is changing the name of a children's book award that honors a prominent author ...

Looted art, gay rights merge in recovery of Polish painting

A same-sex Los Angeles couple was dumbfounded when Homeland Security agents showed up at their home in 2016 with the news ...

Progressive Christian author Rachel Held Evans, 37, dies

Progressive Christian author Rachel Held Evans died in Tennessee on Saturday after spending two weeks in a hospital for ...

Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn builds bridges over Venice

Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn created a splash on the sidelines of the Venice Biennale contemporary art fair two years ago ...

3 black women win Miss USA, Miss Teen USA and Miss America

When Cheslie Kryst won the Miss USA crown, it marked more than a personal triumph: It meant that for the first time, three ...

Roxane Gay and Medium launch Gay Magazine

Author Roxane Gay and the online publishing platform Medium have launched Gay Magazine, dedicated to diverse, "intelligently ...

Ponca Tribe scores win in fight to keep Iowa casino open

The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska has secured another win in its fight with Iowa and Nebraska to keep its newly opened casino in ...

Capone's newly discovered prison roomie gets cot in exhibit

When mobster Al Capone was jailed in Philadelphia in 1929, one newspaper portrayed his cell as a luxurious lockup, adorned ...

France, Italy honor Leonardo 500 years after artist's death

The presidents of France and Italy laid a wreath Thursday on the tomb of Leonardo da Vinci, who died in the French town of ...

Judge to decide if he will consider request in Smollett case

A judge is to rule next week on whether he will recuse himself from a request to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate ...

'Mortal Kombat' among 4 inducted to Video Game Hall of Fame

"Mortal Kombat," the blood-and-guts arcade game that triggered Congressional hearings and age-level game ratings, was ...

Leonardo drawing, portrait mark 500 years since his death

A drawing of a bearded, pensive-looking man owned by Queen Elizabeth II is a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, a royal art ...

'The Mueller Report' is officially a best-seller

"The Mueller Report" is now officially a best-seller. A published edition of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation ...

Philadelphia ex-poet laureate faces uproar for skinhead past

Philadelphia's second poet laureate, who focused on taking poetry to neighborhoods and the city's young people, has been ...

Review: Molly Dektar takes writerly look at allure of cults

"The Ash Family" (Simon & Schuster), by Molly Dektar From the very first few pages of her debut novel about a cult, "The Ash ...

Review: Tembi Locke's 'From Scratch' is a gorgeous read

"From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home" (Simon & Schuster), by Tembi Locke Not interested in yet another ...

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