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Princeton professor Susan Wolfson on why we love 'Frankenstein' two centuries later

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'I Am You' fictionalizes the story of a Dutch Golden Age painter and her maid

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Short story collection 'Heart Lamp' is the winner of the International Booker Prize

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Through politics, fiction and her latest novel, Stacey Abrams aims to inspire action

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'No Sense in Wishing' and 'Hit Girls' consider the way culture shapes identity

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After 20 years, Mary Jo Bang has completed her translation of Dante's 'Divine Comedy'

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Mark Kurlansky's novel 'Cheesecake' was inspired by a recipe from ancient Rome

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In her new memoir, Hala Alyan searches for home amid a family history of exile

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New biographies look at the careers of designers Claire McCardell and Virgil Abloh

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'Trailblazer' is a memoir by Carol Moseley Braun, first Black woman elected to Senate

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Liane Moriarty on her novel 'Here One Moment' and on writing 'women's fiction'

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In the new speculative novel 'Weepers,' mourning is outsourced to professionals

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Ten years later, Ta-Nehisi Coates says 'Between the World and Me' is no longer his

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Kevin Kwan explores race and identity in 'Sex and Vanity' and 'Lies and Weddings'

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In Emma Straub's novel 'All Adults Here,' family is messy

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These previously unpublished Harper Lee stories were discovered in her NYC apartment

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