Yes, Philip Roth liked sex. A lot. But at the end of the day, nothing mattered more to the iconic author than books, a new biography says.

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Greene secured financial backing from Guyana-based conglomerate Booker McConnell that had recently expanded its interests to ...

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John Boyne’s Les Éléments has won the 2025 Prix Femina for Foreign Fiction at a ceremony at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris ...

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The American painter, a major figure of the second half of the 20th century who moved from figurative art to abstract ...

But it is Olivia, Britton’s wife, to whom the novel is addressed, who takes the leading role and lands the knockout punch against mindless wokeness at a dinner party where Israeli wine from the Golan ...

Yet she has gone from being prolific to ubiquitous. In recent years, Smith has co-authored two children’s books with her husband, the poet Nick Laird, and written her first play and numerous articles ...

JTA — It was a scandal right out of a Philip Roth novel: Days after the publication in 2021 of his long-awaited biography of Roth, author Blake Bailey was credibly accused of sexual misconduct. The ...

Most of the public has no idea how much effort and money newsgathering requires, how many rounds of reporting, editing, and fact-checking a story goes through before it reaches the public and drowns ...