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building with barbed wire

Disappeared Uyghur author’s novel translated into English for the first time

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Darren Byler, a Uyghur scholar, joined The World’s host Carol Hills from Vancouver to discuss the book, “The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang.”

An unidentified man walks along oil pipelines belonging to Agip Oil company in Obrikom, Nigeria, Monday, March 6, 2006. 

West African villagers take on an American oil giant in a new novel by Imbolo Mbue

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Candles burn as a tribute to victims near the site of the attack at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris in November, 2015.

A love story set in Paris after terror attacks, ‘when fear threatens to cancel out empathy’

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This Is Their Youth

In new memoir, Salman Rushdie tells tale of life as hunted man

Arts, Culture & Media

Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer discuss ‘The Help’

Arts, Culture & Media

The stars and writer-director Tate Taylor discuss their film about black maids in 1960s segregated Mississippi.

Novelist Ha Jin

Arts, Culture & Media

“The Writer as Migrant” is Jin’s latest book examining the different ways writers have dealt with geographic displacement.

Genre Busters

Arts, Culture & Media

The fight over genre fiction — genre busters like Michael Chabon, Richard Price and others talk about the writings that transcend genres.

John Hodgman interviews George R.R. Martin

Arts, Culture & Media

George R. R. Martin is the author a series of fantasy books which was recently adapted for the acclaimed HBO show “A Game of Thrones.”

Post-Postmodernism

Arts, Culture & Media

Salman Rushdie’s multi-layered novel, three types of postmodernism identified, and Stuff White People Like.