Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your April reading list.

An Olivetti Studio 46 typewriter that belonged to Octavia E. Butler. As the author recalled: "I wrote my first ten books on a manual typewriter." Chris Gunn Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait ...

China Reevers of Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, Mont., recommends “Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for ...

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5 DEMON COPPERHEAD (Harper Perennial, $21.99). By Barbara Kingsolver. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, a boy born in a trailer in Appalachia faces the challenges of childhood poverty with ...

Sherald’s oeuvre so far is singular in its advancement of the American Realist tradition of artists such as Edward Hopper, who were foundational to the Whitney’s founding in 1930, by presenting a new ...

for his book tour of his new novel ... Berg said Staples’ national success, which includes winning the prestigious Octavia E. Butler Award for his first novel, has been great to witness.

Meet the dealmakers and litigators who made the cut for THR‘s 20th annual list of the entertainment industry’s most powerful ...