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Chandan Khanna Cross-pollinated ancestry, live jazz, delicious food, ornate mansions, the French Quarter, Congo Square, Mardi Gras, and even Hurricane “Katrina” are just a few of the mental imprints that...

Christina Sharpe (winner of a 2024 Windham Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction) joins Michael Kelleher to rave about 2018 Fiction prize-winner John Keene’s Counternarratives. They discuss the pleasures of Keene’s playful...

Kevin Barry’s latest novel is “The Heart in Winter.” (Photo credit Olivia Smith / Courtesy of Doubleday) In the woods near his home in Ireland, author Kevin Barry found the...

Get here the list of best books for ages 3 to 5 and give them the gift of quality reading experience. These books are interactive and engaging. The bedtime stories which...

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise is a wonderful, enigmatic novel that effortlessly blends the commonplace and the extraordinary. A true-to-life narrative about a woman...

Vietnam Pivot, a new book by Kent B. Carpenter, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc.In this searing poetry collection, the poet looks back on eighty years of life,...

Shoaib Rokadiya is joining Atlantic Non-Fiction as associate publisher.   Rokadiya is returning to publishing after a 15-month career break. He replaces James Pulford who recently departed for Hutchinson Heinemann.  He has...

“Honoring Ashley” remembers the legacy that Jamestown High graduate Ashley Cerasole left behind. The book was published by her mom in her memory. (The Rocheleau Family) WILLIAMSBURG — Michelle Rocheleau...

AFGHANISTANThe Afghans: Three Lives through War, Love and Revolt Asne SeierstadVirago, $34.99Once upon a time, long ago, a Norwegian journalist, Asne Seierstad, wrote a non-fiction book about life in Afghanistan...

Mark Twain once said that humour is like a frog, which could be dissected, but it dies in the process. Similarly, the analysis of poetry spoils all its pleasure, but...