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Chapter & Verse Should books be a part of emergency relief efforts?
A petition titled The Urgency of Reading states that reading and writing are 'essential to healing and reconstruction' after disasters, and the document has been signed by more than 100 writers, literary groups and others.
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Sometimes There Is a Void
A messy memoir from an important African voice.
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Chapter & Verse Why Tomas Transtromer won the 2011 Nobel Prize for literature
Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer has been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature with poetry that "gives us fresh access to reality."
10/06/2011 10:02 am -
Embassytown
China Mieville's heady new novel harks back to the 1970s science fiction of Ursula Le Guin and Doris Lessing.
05/18/2011 12:51 pm -
Mario Vargas Llosa wins 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature. Who else won in the past decade?
Mario Vargas Llosa has won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Peruvian author and former presidential candidate received the prestigious Cervantes Prize in 1995 and is the first South American author to win the Nobel since Gabriel García Márquez won the award in 1982. Here are the past decade's winners.
10/07/2010 02:11 pm -
Chapter & Verse Fighting "second-novel syndrome"
03/24/2009 01:00 am -
Chapter & Verse Odds favor Amos Oz for Nobel Prize in Literature
10/08/2008 01:00 am -
Alfred & Emily
Doris Lessing explores both real and imaginary versions of the lives of her parents.
08/05/2008 01:00 am
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