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Novelist T.C. Boyle takes on a California environmental battle while Mary Doria Russell takes a fresh look at the Wild West of Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. In nonfiction, Sarah Vowell tours Hawaii, Charles Fishman looks at the future of water, Allen Shawn reflects on being a twin, and Ben Ryder Howe on running a Brooklyn deli.

Julian Barnes returns with a Booker Prize-winning novel while Michael Parker wins big praise for his historical story set in North Carolina. In nonfiction, there are memoirs by writer Joan Didion and boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, plus David M. Eagleman looks into the secret life of the brain.

Sloane Crosley's memoir about a friend who died by suicide takes the form of a "traditional" elegy, but there's nothing traditional about Crosley's arresting observations on being engulfed by grief.

Sloane Crosley's memoir about a friend who died by suicide takes the form of a "traditional" elegy, but there's nothing traditional about Crosley's arresting observations on being engulfed by grief.

In 1959, Rollins was a few years into one of the great hot streaks in jazz history when he took a three-week trip to Europe. Three hours from that tour are heard on a new Rollins-approved reissue.

Biles, who won gold earlier this week as part of the team all-around final, now has six Olympic gold medals (plus a silver and two bronze). Those nine Olympic medals are the most by any U.S. gymnast.

Records obtained by The Texas Newsroom indicate that extreme heat contributed to the deaths of several state prison inmates in recent years.

The school, where thousands were sheltering, was being used by displaced Palestinians and the deaths included several children. Israel's military said it was targeting a Hamas command center.

The Paris Olympic opening ceremony delivered an amazing spectacle. Thousands of athletes floated down the Seine as more than 400,000 people lined the banks to take it all in.

Five-time Olympian Yusuf Dikec shot his way to silver with regular eyeglasses and a hand in his pocket. His casual style impressed viewers and had many jokingly wondering whether he might be a hitman.