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R. F. Kuang, 26, is hardly a debut author. She has already published four fantasy novels infused with Chinese history and profound questions about colonial legacies, including the "Poppy War" trilogy and last year's bestseller, "Babel, or the Necessity of Violence."

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan and Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang.

Louise Minchin returned to BBC Breakfast on Wednesday almost two years after she stepped down from the show

They've held credentials from some of the world's most elite universities — Harvard, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Oxford. They've been welcomed into the highest government policy councils. They became fixtures on television news shows and were quoted incessantly by some of the nation's leading newspapers.

From childhood in London to radicalist notoriety to global wanderings, this fragmentary memoir of a ‘Pound Shop prophet’ is thrillingly ambitious

Approved by both chambers, the bill is now on its way to the governor. Unless he vetoes it, the bill will become law, which means book vendors will have to assign ratings to books based on depictions or references to sex.

U.S. history textbooks for high schoolers are lacking when it comes to covering the Latino experience, a report by the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and Latino civil rights organization UnidosUS found.

Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter, translated by Angela Rodel, portrays a ‘clinic for the past’ and was praised as a ‘great novel about Europe’

DC's August solicitations revealed a huge amount of new art

Anthony Broadwater was exonerated in 2021 after spending 16 years in prison

Crystelle Pereira, a Great British Bake Off finalist from 2021 has shared her top tips for experimenting with flavour at home while cooking on a budget