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In her new book, Forcing the Spring, investigative reporter Jo Becker goes behind the scenes in the fight for marriage equality. Above, Eric Breese of Rochester, N.Y., joins hundreds of others to rally outside the Supreme Court during oral arguments in a

'Forcing The Spring' Tells One Chapter In Story Of Marriage Equality

2:42pm April 23, 2014

The strategy of going to the Supreme Court to challenge Proposition 8 was controversial within the gay-rights movement. Now, Jo Becker's new book is proving to be controversial as well.

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detail from cover of ballad of a small player

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The Tawdry Ballad Of A Man, A Casino And A Game Of Chance

7:26pm April 21, 2014

by Tash Aw

The Ballad of a Small Player is set in the murky underworld of Macau's casinos. Reviewer Tash Aw calls the novel a masterful and thrilling collision of old Asia and 21st century glamour.

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Writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who won the Nobel Prize in 1982, died Thursday at 87.

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A Love Letter To Literature: Reading Gabo In 'The Paris Review'

7:13pm April 18, 2014

by Gustavo Arellano

Gabriel Garcia Marquez died Thursday. It would be hard to overstate the importance of his novels, but author Gustavo Arellano recommends getting to know him in a different medium.

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Colombia Mourns Death Of Favorite Son: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

11:10am April 18, 2014

by Juan Forero

Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 87, died on Thursday. He made Colombia synonymous with literature, particularly the dreamlike, whimsical story-telling known as magical realism.

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Admirers ask Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- seated alongside his wife, Mercedes Barcha -- to sign books in Santa Marta, Colombia, in 2007.

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Writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Who Gave Voice To Latin America, Dies

8:06pm April 17, 2014

by Mandalit del Barco

The master of magic realism was the region's best-known writer. His novels were filled with miraculous events and characters; love and madness; wars, dreams and death. He died Thursday at 87.

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'Bintel Brief' And 'Hellfighters': American Stories, Powerfully Illustrated

4:57pm April 17, 2014

by Maureen Corrigan

Critic Maureen Corrigan recommends two graphic novels — one about a Yiddish advice column in the early 1900s and another about a regiment of African-American soldiers who fought during World War I.

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Kinder Than Solitude is Yiyun Li's sixth book.

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Book Review: 'Kinder Than Solitude'

8:20pm April 16, 2014

by Ellah Allfrey

Ellah Allfrey reviews Kinder Than Solitude, by Yiyun Li.

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Crime writer Giorgio Scerbanenco was born in Kiev in 1911, grew up in Rome and worked for decades as a journalist in Milan.

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Exploring Life's Incurable Soiledness With The Father Of Italian Noir

3:33pm April 16, 2014

by John Powers

A crackling new translation of Giorgio Scerbanenco's crime novel Private Venus has just been released. Critic John Powers read it in a single sitting.

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Carlotta Gall began reporting on Afghanistan in November 2001, just after the U.S. started bombing the country in response to the Sept. 11 attacks.

Pakistan, The Taliban And The Real 'Enemy' Of The Afghanistan War

7:42pm April 15, 2014

In a new book, New York Times correspondent Carlotta Gall offers new information about how Pakistan has helped the Taliban in Afghanistan and may have helped hide Osama bin Laden.

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Empathy: How Should We Care About One Another?

7:20am April 15, 2014

Kelly McEvers talks to Leslie Jamison, author of the new essay collection, The Empathy Exams: Essays. The book takes the writer on a quest to figure out how others feel empathy.

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