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Zhang Lifan is a Beijing-based historian specializing in modern Chinese history. He is also an outspoken critic of the Chinese government who is interviewed regularly by the foreign press—even… More

Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks, Moonlight Oscar nominee Tarell Alvin McCraney, and Thomas Bradshaw are among the winners of the 2017 Poets, Essayists and Novelists (PEN) America Literary Awards. The three playwrights are… More

You can get your new year off to a good start by reading an award-winning book that you didn't crack open in 2016, so check this out: Helen Oyeyemi has… More

PEN America has announced the winners of the majority of its 2017 Literary Awards, which include novelist, essayist, and critic Aleksandar Hemon for his oral history of Bosnian migrants, How Did… More

The playwright who inspired the Oscar-nominated movie "Moonlight" has won a prize from PEN America, the literary and human rights organization. Tarell Alvin McCraney received an award for best mid-career… More

A group of artists is suing the South Korean government for putting them on a blacklist that barred them from receiving state funding or support. The president said that… More

For 90 years, books published by Duquesne University Press have helped build knowledge in fields that include specialty areas of humanistic psychology, continental philosophy, and medieval and Renaissance literary… More

Evanston Township High School will host "Revisiting the Underground Railroad" with Colson Whitehead on Monday, February 27 at 7:00pm, in the school auditorium. The event is free and open… More

Evanston Township High School will host “Revisiting the Underground Railroad” with Colson Whitehead on Monday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. in the school auditorium. The event is free and… More