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The bestselling counterculture novelist, whose books included Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Another Roadside Attraction, has died at 92

The concern was such that at one point it made Trump travel in a decoy plane

Years ago, as a high school librarian in suburban Philadelphia, I hosted a group of honors students from a high school just across the nearby city border. With the support of their alumni association, the city students planned to build a library at their school.

Lord Sumption says Israel’s actions ‘grossly disproportionate’ and in new book points to suppression of free speech over Palestinian cause

A liberal arts community finds itself hosting the closely watched trial of man accused of stabbing novelist in 2022

Israeli police have raided a long-established Palestinian-owned bookstore in east Jerusalem, detaining the owners and confiscating books about the decades-long conflict

Winsome Pinnock adapts the story of a teenager whose heart transplant causes controversy but the comedy drowns out the issues

Writer was known for his audacious metaphors and ‘seriocomic’ tone

Raid on Educational Bookshop branches described by rights groups as attempt to create ‘culture of fear’ among Palestinian intellectuals

Prosecutors begin case against Hadi Matar, charged with attempted murder and assault over festival attack in 2022

Lawyers are set to deliver opening statements at the trial of the man charged with trying to fatally stab author Salman Rushdie in front of a lecture audience in western New York