 Sallie Bingham, the author, playwright, philanthropist, feminist, and political activist "whose feud with her brother helped topple the Kentucky publishing and media dynasty into which she was born," died August 6 at age 88, the New York Times reported. In 1918, her paternal grandfather, Robert Worth Bingham, bought the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times. The newspapers, run next by her father, Barry Bingham Sr., "flourished in the decades that followed....
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Sam Wachman's debut novel, The Sunflower Boys, is a beautiful, heartbreaking portrait of brotherly love in the midst of great upheaval. This nuanced coming-of-age story, set in Ukraine on the cusp of war, sprang from his own family history as much as the stories he heard while teaching English there. And in today's interview, Wachman discusses what he hopes readers will understand about the stakes of the ongoing siege...
