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Kenya The New York Times entertainment
19 Aug 2024
When the writer Jason Reynolds speaks to young people, he rarely starts by talking about books.
Jason Reynolds Is on a Mission
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
26 May 2024
SAN FRANCISCO — Until recently, when friends came to Chanel Miller’s apartment, she would throw a bag over the Glamour Woman of the Year award that she received in 2016.
She's Sharing Her Story and Giving Her Name
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
20 Jun 2019
Mo Willems is this year’s winner of the Best of Brooklyn award, which is presented annually to a writer who “exemplifies or speaks to the spirit of Brooklyn.” Willems is the first picture-book author to receive the award and joins such previous winners as Jacqueline Woodson, Colson Whitehead and James McBride.
Brooklyn Book Festival names Mo Willems 'Best of Brooklyn'
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
12 May 2019
This fantastical novel by the French-Senegalese NDiaye follows four generations of women, and their relationships with each other, as they work to assimilate into French society. “It’s a wild ghost story,” a New York Times reviewer wrote, “rooted in immigration and exile.”
Mom, maman, mama 13 stories of motherhood from around the world
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
3 May 2019
(Book News): Novelist Salman Rushdie co-founded the PEN World Voices Festival 15 years ago, when he was president of PEN America, but it has roots in a conference that occurred decades earlier. In 1986, more than 600 prominent writers from around the world, including Rushdie, gathered for a PEN Congress in New York City.
15 years later, PEN World Voices Festival is still trying to unify the world
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
23 Apr 2019
(Newsbook): It has been only 10 years since the decadeslong civil war in Sri Lanka ended. Now the island has been hit by violence again, with a series of coordinated suicide bomb attacks that killed nearly 300 people. These books offer context about the country and the toll that the tension between the Buddhist majority and Tamil minority has had on its people.
3 books explore Sri Lanka's past (violent and otherwise)
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
26 Mar 2019
“Some people have hives for entertainers. I have hives for food,” Damon Young, editor-in-chief of the pop culture criticism website Very Smart Brothas, said during a recent interview.
Damon Young on the 'Absurdity' of being black