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When Bay Area schools shut down due to COVID-19, Palo Alto resident Evelyne Keomian launched an initiative to deliver books and school supplies to low-income local families in packages she has dubbed ...

Tayari Jones, Ann Patchett, George Saunders and Veronica Roth return with new novels; Jennette McCurdy makes her fiction debut; and more. By Miguel Salazar and Laura Thompson Memoirs by Sylvester ...

"Avatar: Fire and Ash" opens in theaters on Friday around the world, though the highly anticipated sequel will play in early previews on Thursday. Fans of the "Avatar" saga will probably watch the ...

The difficulty in establishing a literary school is that someone is always cutting class. Novelist Nathalie Sarraute, dean of women of the French school known as the New Realist, inveighs against ...

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From a "richly atmospheric" novella to a "virtuosic" debut – this is the very best fiction of the year, as chosen by BBC journalists. This part-fictionalised historical novel from the bestselling ...

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