The winners of the 2023 Lambda Literary Awards, given each year to books by LGBTQ+ writers, were announced at a ceremony Friday evening in New York. Read more
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Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89
Cormac McCarthy, the formidable and reclusive writer of Appalachia and the American Southwest, whose raggedly ornate early novels about misfits and grotesques gave way to the lush taciturnity of “All the Pretty Horses” and the apocalyptic minimalism of “The Road,” died on Tuesday at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 89. Read more
Elizabeth Gilbert Halts Release of New Book after Outcry Over its Russian Setting
Elizabeth Gilbert, the bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love, announced that she is halting the release of her next book following a “massive” backlash about its setting in Russia. Read more
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Tony Awards 2023: Here’s the List of Major Winners
The 76th Tony Awards wrapped up at the United Palace Sunday night. Below is the list of major 2023 Tony Award nominees with winners marked in bold. Read more
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Science Fiction From Latin America, With Zombie Dissidents and Aliens in the Amazon
The writing, in Spanish and Portuguese, is radical and idiosyncratic, teeming with technoshamans and futuristic Indigenous aesthetics while also influenced by the region’s European and African heritages. Troubled histories and the urgency of the present inspire it, too, with themes of colonization, the climate crisis and migration. Read more
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Turning the World on to the Genius of Fungi
A vast fungal web braids together life on Earth. Merlin Sheldrake wants to help us see it. Read more
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For the First Time in Print, a Haunting Lost Classic
The enigmatic Susan Taubes wrote the coming-of-age novel “Lament for Julia” in the 1960s; 54 years after her death, its gothic splendors shine. Read more
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46 Books that Changed the World
Here, in no particular order, are just a few of history’s most influential tomes—and how they made humanity look at things in a new light. Read more
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U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s Verses are Soaring Into Space — Literally
The Mexican American’s new poem will be engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper mission spacecraft and travel 1.8 billion miles — and the public can send their names along. Read more
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What’s Weird? These Novels — Brilliant Forays Into the Otherworldly
Having no belief whatsoever in the supernatural, I nonetheless love stories of the weird and inexplicable. Give me a plot involving magic, deals with the devil, three wishes, an impossible-seeming murder, time travel, alchemy, the Tarot, accursed books, revenants, demons or Elder Gods, and I’m a happy reader. In what follows, I race — with necessary but unseemly speed — through 10 recent volumes of the “weird,” nearly all from small independent presses. Read more
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