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The week's bestselling books, May 5
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 days agoKnife by Salman Rushdie (Random House: $28) The renowned writer's searing account of the 2022 attempt on his life. 5. Somehow by Anne Lamott (Riverhead...
Paul Auster, prolific and experimental man of letters and filmmaker, dies at 77
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 day agoPaul Auster, a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for such inventive...
A Prominent Free-Speech Group Is Fighting for Its Life
The Atlantic· 6 days agoIn 2015, PEN America, the organization devoted to defending free speech, chose to honor the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo at its annual gala. A few months earlier, Islamic extremists ...
10 Books to Read: The Best Reviews of April
The Wall Street Journal· 2 days agoAn unlikely world leader, the quest to record America’s folk music, Salman Rushdie’s memoir of assault and more books highlighted by our reviewers.
NAU president elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Arizona Daily Sun· 6 days agoCruz Rivera is one of 250 leaders elected to the academy in 2024, a list that also includes George...
Paul Auster, prolific and experimental man of letters and filmmaker, dies at 77
Stamford Advocate· 1 day agoPaul Auster, a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for such inventive...
Opinion | PEN America Has Stood By Authors. They Should Stand By PEN.
New York Times· 4 days agoAll strong institutions stand to benefit from internal dissent and external pressures. Nonprofit...
Croissants aren’t French and pizza sauce isn’t Italian – the national dishes that aren’t from where...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 5 days agoFOOD FOCUS: A food historian has kicked up controversy after claiming that there is ‘no such thing’...
‘The Women’ is the top national fiction bestseller
Seattle Times· 5 days agoHere are this week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly.
Fed up with Biden v Trump II? Some succour from fictional rematches
The Economist· 4 days agoPicture a pair of adversaries—let’s call them Joe and Donald. It is six months until the titanic...
