Racism, both past and present, remains at the forefront of the American national conversation. Now, a new book by a…
Sunday marked what would have been literary icon James Baldwin's 96th birthday, in a year when the resurgence of Black…
Our August book club pick for Now Read This, the PBS NewsHour's book club with The New York Times, is…
Milan Kundera, the 91-year-old author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and other acclaimed novels, has decided to donate his…
Claudia Rankine, author of our July pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown…
In her book "Citizen," the poet Claudia Rankine aims to show readers how Black people experience racism in their everyday…
In crafting her elegy for Trayvon Martin, poet Claudia Rankine sought to draw on the larger narrative of "terrorization, violence…
"Joanna Cole had the perfect touch for blending science and story," Scholastic CEO Dick Robinson said in a statement Wednesday.
Our July 2020 pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is Claudia Rankine's "Citizen."
The deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor have sparked a renewed dialogue on racism in America. Reform…
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Publisher pauses release of new Philip Roth biography
How racism pushed Tina Turner and other Black women artists out of America
Advice for life, from an artist living on the edge of it
Greta Thunberg docuseries amplifies her climate change fight
LeVar Burton to guest host ‘Jeopardy!’ after huge boost from online petition
Prince fans headed to Paisley Park five years after death
‘Downton Abbey’ cast returns for sequel opening in December
