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Clockwise from left: Kazuo Ishiguro, Toni Morrison, Gabriel García Márquez, and Nadine Gordimer.

The Swedish Academy has been awarding Nobel Prizes in Literature since 1901; here are a few laureates whose books you might want to consider picking up.

Erin McCarthy




Cleopatra in a 1930s illustration

The queen has achieved legendary status more than two millennia after her death—which, contrary to rumor, may not have been caused by the bite of an asp.

Stacy Conradt








The items are this list are purrfect for pet lovers.

This holiday season, treat the pet lovers in your life with these gifts for themselves, their cats, their dogs, and beyond.

Kerry Wolfe