With some laughs, some stories, some tears, Don Winslow begins what he calls his...
NEW YORK (AP) — Don Winslow, embarking on what he calls his final book tour, had a feeling he might not keep it together“It’s...
Pepe Aguilar is putting Mexican culture at the front and center with ‘Jaripeo: Hasta...
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Pepe Aguilar feels like a superhero when he puts on his charro suit. But unlike Superman, Aguilar’s power isn’t supernatural...
Claire Jiménez’s ‘What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez’ wins the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
NEW YORK (AP) — Claire Jiménez’s “What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez,” a hard-hitting and comic novel set in New York City about a Puerto...
Poet-critic Hanif Abdurraqib among 8 winners of $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes.
NEW YORK (AP) — Poet-critic Hanif Abdurraqib, fiction writers Deirdre Madden and Kathryn Scanlan and playwright Christopher Chen are among this year's recipients of...
John Sinclair, a marijuana activist who was immortalized in a John Lennon song, dies...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — John Sinclair, a poet, music producer and counterculture figure whose lengthy prison sentence after a series of small-time pot...
‘SCTV’ star and comedian Joe Flaherty has died at 82 after an illness, his...
TORONTO (AP) — Comedian Joe Flaherty, a founding member of the Canadian sketch series “SCTV,” has died. He was 82.His daughter Gudrun said Tuesday...
This mob-era casino is closing on the Las Vegas Strip. Here’s some big moments...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — From its lavish opening in 1957 on a Las Vegas Boulevard surrounded by wide-open desert, to its sleepier years amid...
Wallace Peeples, activist-influencer otherwise known as Wallo267, has memoir out in September
NEW YORK (AP) — Wallace Peeples has lived many lives — activist, speechmaker, podcaster, social media influencer — since serving 20 years in prison....
Klaus Mäkelä, just 28, to become Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director in 2027
Klaus Mäkelä was hired Tuesday to succeed Riccardo Muti as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and will become the youngest head since...
Maryse Condé, prolific ‘grande dame’ of Caribbean literature, dies at age 90
NEW YORK (AP) — Maryse Condé, an acclaimed French-language novelist from Guadeloupe who in novels, stories, plays and memoirs imagined and redefined the personal...
