TEHRAN - An American writer says after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the American leaders neglected rural Afghans that led to hatred against Washington. “Military leaders backed the merchant class in Kabul, not understanding how rural Afghanis dislike them (or

Or not. Part of what Akhtar gestures at in his book — this novel-as-memoir, or memoir-as-novel, which gently skirts the demand to take your pick — is that one’s identity isn’t a matter of argument but experience. That experience isn’t

Maxwell’s debut novel, “Bright Center of Heaven,” which he declined to reprint during his lifetime (it can be found in the first volume of the Library of America edition published in 2008), is set at a Meadowland, Wis., estate that

Amid the Afghanistan crisis, Afghan-American writer Khaled Hosseini has expressed deep concern over women living under the Taliban rule. According to CNN, Hosseini said that women are the most neglected voices in the war-torn country. While the Taliban has declared

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days. By Rebecca Donner. Little, Brown; 576 pages; $32. Canongate; £16.99IN FEBRUARY 1943 a sympathetic chaplain at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin made one last visit to a condemned woman. She was bent over a

How 4 college students tried to steal rare books worth millions from a school library — and what got them caught  CNBC

THE MANY MEANINGS OF MEILANBy Andrea WangAs a child, I read every book I could get my hands on from the children’s section of the Brooklyn Public Library, starting with A and working my way through to Z. But much

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"I don't have much use for reality in my line of work," writes local author Jason Mott in his latest novel "Hell of a Book." Indeed, all three of Mott's novels to date -- "The Wonder of All Things," "The Crossing"