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NEW YORK (AP) — With his calm and cool demeanor, fashion disruptor and multi-hyphenate Virgil Abloh artfully challenged the fashion industry's traditions to leave his mark as a Black creative, despite his short-lived career.

“The Tiny Things Are Heavier,” by author Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, is a reflection on young adulthood, migration, cultural misunderstanding and family relationships.

TORONTO — An upcoming anthology to meet the recent swell in national pride will include essays by prominent Canadians including writers Margaret Atwood and Omar El Akkad, as well as filmmakers Atom Egoyan and Jay Baruchel.

TORONTO — Illustrator Maurice Vellekoop has won Ontario's top literary award for his graphic memoir "I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together.

In the shadow of an imposing stone bell tower, market stalls fan out by the dozens from the central plaza of Sineu, Mallorca.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List) 1. The Wedding People by Alison Espach (Henry Holt and Co.) 2. The First Gentleman by Bill Clinton & James Patterson (Little, Brown and Company) 3.

Sixteen years have passed since Shaw Connolly’s teenage sister, Thea, slipped out of their family home in rural Maine to party with friends and never came home.

Talking Heads fans, rejoice! Hard on the heels of the re-release of “Stop Making Sense,” the 1984 Jonathan Demme film widely considered the best concert movie ever made, Jonathan Gould has published a comprehensive biography of the seminal band that

Muriel Blossom began her fictional career as a minor character in 2008, serving as an assistant to private detective Tess Monaghan, the protagonist in twelve of Laura Lippman’s fine crime novels.

LONDON (AP) — Dutch writer Yael van der Wouden won the Women’s Prize for Fiction on Thursday for her debut novel “The Safekeep,” a story of repressed emotion and suppressed historical memory in the Netherlands after World War II.