After a forced confession and a death sentence, a Kurdish poet spent 30 years in jail, where he discovered his voice. His ...

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In the play “Rheology,” a son and his mother grapple, in very different ways, with what her eventual death will mean.

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For most of his life, John Robins assumed he got more out of alcohol than it took from him. Now he knows it was the other way round ...

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Amanda Knox continues to make headlines almost two decades after she was convicted - and later exonerated - for the murder of ...

Short fiction, a novel about young adult crushes and an amazing Minnesota musician’s memoir are out this spring.

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