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National Book Award finalist Bothayna Al-Essa’s 2021 novel, The Book Censor's Library, newly translated from the original ...

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The winner of the Booker Prize is to be announced later today, with a record five female authors vying to win the prestigious ...

An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia ...