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Philip Roth’s Indignation is narrated by a young Jewish man from New Jersey and follows him to college in Winesburg, Ohio as he attempts to improve his social status and…

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In an effort to glean a list of books capable of sparking broad conversations from the thousands published each year, the World Book Day team asked publishers large and small…

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271 titles were submitted in the Fiction category and the 5 National Book Awards Finalists in Fiction, announced today, are:

Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba
Peter Matthiessen,…

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Indian author, Aravind Adiga, won the £50,000 Man Booker prize today for his debut novel, The White Tiger. Michael Portillo, the chair of the Booker judges characterized the final panel…

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The Oxford English Dictionary turns 80 and is celebrating with special events at Oxford. Maud Newton is in London for the festivities which include a panel discussion tomorrow with…

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