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Louise Edrich’s The Night Watchmen wins 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Posted on July 23, 2021| Posted in Featured, Book News

The Pulitzer Prize is an award established in 1917 for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature and musical composition within the United States administered by Columbia University. Read more for the complete list of winners for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for literature.

#ReadAsian: Explore the diversity of Asian books

Posted on June 29, 2021| Posted in Featured

Asian books contain important voices that need to be heard: authentic Asian experiences that bring in a wide array of themes ranging from feminism to Asian philosophy, that can surely widen your reach as a reader. Read here to discover common themes found in Asian literature.

First Few Pages: Land by Simon Winchester

Posted on February 3, 2021| Posted in First Few Pages

The author of The Professor and the Madman and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property—our proprietary relationship with the land—through human history, how it has shaped us and what it will mean for our future. Read an excerpt on the blog.

First Few Pages: Caste

Posted on August 20, 2020| Posted in First Few Pages

Isabel Wilkerson explores caste systems across civilizations and the eight pillars that underlie them — including divine will, bloodlines, stigma and more. This powerful caste system influences people's lives and behavior, even the nation's fate. Using riveting stories of people — from Martin Luther King Jr.'s to her own, and many others' — Wilkerson shows the ways caste is experienced every day.