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Jan 10, 2022 - An ever-expanding literary landscape offers important, rarely told stories
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Nov 3, 2023 - Paula Ramón, author of "Motherland," recommends literature about the past and present of her home country
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Dec 15, 2025 - You voted, and the results are in! Read about the making of 2025's best book cover
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Oct 28, 2025 - In these stories, disabled people and caregivers are complex, flawed human beings…who are often hilarious
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Mar 14, 2019 - Octavia E. Butler was one of the great science fiction writers of the 20th century, writing bestselling and award-winning novels over several decades and...
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Nov 21, 2025 - Based on what America has provided a foreigner like me, I want to believe this country can shine its grace on those who have rarely felt it
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Nov 26, 2019 - As a translator, I need to think carefully about whose words get to be heard and understood
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Jan 17, 2025 - Books by Zora Neale Hurston, Laila Lalami, Andrea Long Chu, Angela Flournoy, and EL's own Denne Michele Norris are among the most anticipated
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Nov 7, 2025 - These authors resist turning mental illness into a metaphor or exotic spectacle
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