It’s the season of literary awards. The PEN/FaulknerAward for Fiction has gone to Sherman Alexie for ‘War Dances.’ Read all about it. The four other finalists: […]
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Virtually every great American historian of the postwar era has received the Bancroft Prize. The 2010 Bancroft Prizes have just been announced, and the winners are: […]