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Mahmoud Khalil spent 104 days in ICE detention, missing the birth of his first child, after the Trump administration arrested him for protesting the war in Gaza at Columbia University. The Palestinian activist and author joins Antonia Hylton to share his story and discuss his new book, “No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention”.
“It Was Either That Or Die,” by the Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien, was the hit of the French literary season. Now it has been pulled from the shortlist for a prestigious prize.
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He profiled John Updike and Norman Mailer, served as a foreign correspondent in Canada and France, and wrote a prizewinning book about the Vietnam War.
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Salman Rushdie, the award-winning author who went into hiding for almost a decade after Iran’s supreme leader called for his killing over his novel “The Satanic Verses,” reflects on censorship and the state of free expression in America. Rushdie was stabbed more than a dozen times on stage in 2022 before giving a speech and was left blind in one eye.
A new documentary follows renowned author Salman Rushdie’s recovery from the 2022 attack that nearly took his life and left him without sight in one eye. Rushdie connects this attempted murder to the broader attacks on free expression, and the role of writers and journalists today. “I think one of the things that artists all understand and journalists understand is that if you have the story, tell the damn story,” Rushdie says. “Writers always speak the truth and face the consequences.”
With The Disappearers, Marlon James has written an explicit and violent epic that’s been called “the novel of the decade, if not the century." He joins the party to talk about queer Jamaican culture, ’80s music icons, and the gay sex scene that even his editor thought he should leave out. About the show: Welcome to Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro’s Engagement Party, where the hot takes are the smart takes. After years of working side by side, Audie and Ari have made it official with their pop culture video podcast. Party hopping between what you're watching, reading and scrolling, these longtime friends unpack what matters in our endless feeds.
With the publication of her 1974 book, she was hailed as a 20th-century Thoreau, a visionary whose shimmering prose offered glimpses of the eternal.
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The former president is “expressing all of his feelings” about Donald Trump and his administration through his artwork, said Jacob Weisberg.
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Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
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Three early and unpublished works by the author of “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.”
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