Here's the shortlist for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction.

Here's the shortlist for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction.

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Here are the shortlists for the 2024 National Translation Awards in poetry and prose.

Here are the shortlists for the 2024 National Translation Awards in poetry and prose.

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Read the 1934 Zora Neale Hurston essay that inspired next year's Met Gala theme.

Read the 1934 Zora Neale Hurston essay that inspired next year's Met Gala theme.

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Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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How a Group of Revolutionary Anti-Racist Activists Planned to Fight the Klan in North Carolina

How a Group of Revolutionary Anti-Racist Activists Planned to Fight the Klan in North Carolina

Aran Shetterly Remembers the Lead-Up to the 1979 Greensboro Massacre

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Threatened with eviction, a Brooklyn comic shop raised almost $90K to stay open.

Threatened with eviction, a Brooklyn comic shop raised almost $90K to stay open.

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How American Jews Created a Place For Themselves in Show Business

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