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Rediscover the poetry of Anne Sexton—beyond your high school English class.

If girl squads were a thing in the past, these gals would put Taylor and her supermodels to shame.

Fight reductive HEA (Happily Ever After) with Charlotte Brontë's last, best, novel.

Why we find comfort in the soft, sticky, hidden parts of people that live in advice columns.

In City of God, Cecelia Holland explores the dark and powerful world of Italy's original crime family: The Borgias.

Take a tour of England through the life and work of Virginia Woolf.

"This is a satanic book, and should be banned."

The ghost in the library ate my homework, I swear.

You know they battled for a woman’s right to vote, but did you know they also faced feeding tubes, macho critics, and police brutality?

Outdated textbooks return to Portland State University half a century after first being borrowed.

A writer revisits a childhood favorite and finds it's not all butter churning and buggy rides.

Jessa Crispin, in the midst of an existential crisis, follows the lives of exiled writers and artists.

Which books are your favorites to win on November 18?

The National Book Awards announce their complete list of finalists for 2015. Which books will you read?

Author and filmmaker Catherine O’Sullivan Shorr first met singer and Warhol star Nico one brief summer day, when she was making the biggest decision of her life.

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Author Andrei Codrescu tells it like it is: Headed to the island? Pack aspirin and chocolate. And more.