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Films on Princess Diana, Steve Jobs, and Jimi Hendrix should make 2013 a rich year for biopics. An intriguing new…

Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Knopf, 477 pp., $26.95 Hair asserts itself on the first page of “Americanah,” a knowing, prickly…

If you can’t find the art you want, make it yourself. That was famously the mindset of Jay-Z, when the…

Where can one find Nat Turner’s Bible, Emmet Till’s coffin and Harriet Tubman’s shawl? Answer: the Smithsonian National Museum of…

Students at Humboldt State University in northern California analyzed more than 11 months of Twitter data to locate the biggest…

Anisfield-Wolf jury chair Henry Louise Gates Jr. has been busy the past few months, filming episodes of his new PBS…

Anisfield-Wolf winner Walter Mosley gave his readers a true cliff hanger in his last Easy Rawlins book, 2007’s Blonde Faith….

Under the slogan “ideas worth spreading,” the annual TED conferences began in 1990, and have showcased a clutch of Anisfield-Wolf…

Eugene Gloria’s 2012 poetry collection, My Favorite Warlord, won this year’s Anisfield-Wolf prize for poetry. Born in Manila, Phillippines, Gloria uses My Favorite Warlord’s 35…

The road home from war is a long journey to rediscover who you are. Author Kevin Powers, who signed up…

Culled from more than 40,000 pages of interview transcripts, Andrew Solomon‘s Far From The Tree takes an exhaustive look at families…

Laird Hunt is the author of five novels and one short story collection. His latest book, Kind One, won the…

In awarding him its literature prize in 1986, the Nobel Jury cited him as a writer ‘who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence.’

A vivid, fast-paced book that looks at Filipino heritage, samurai, fathers, masculinity, and memory.

Writer Kevin Powers, who joined the Army at age 17 and served as a machine gunner in Iraq, creates a tightly focused, hypnotic story that spirals around his central character’s isolation. Powers has created a piercing portrayal of war.

In understated prose, the story tells of two slave sisters who turn tables on their mistress and take her captive after her Kentucky farmer husband dies.

The jury has spoken and five new authors will join the Anisfield-Wolf family. Our 2013 winners are:  Laird Hunt, Kind One,…

Quincy Jones turned 80 years old this year—a number he never thought he’d live to see. “I guess if you…

Few modern poets range as widely through time and geography as Rita Dove, the former U.S. poet laureate. But when…

Gary Schmidt, the lanky author of winning children’s novels such as “The Wednesday Wars” and “Okay for Now,’ stood up…