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Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Prize in literature for her ‘uncompromising’ work on family, class and gender

Rob Picheta, CNN French author Annie Ernaux has won the Nobel Prize in literature, organizers announced in Stockholm on Thursday. Ernaux, 82, has written a number of celebrated novels, many of which are autobiographical. Her first book, “Les armoires vides,” was published in French in 1974, and in English as “Cleaned Out” in 1990. Her

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‘Mr. Harrigan’s Phone’ gets its message across with a smart Stephen King adaptation

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Add “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone” to the relatively short list of really good Stephen King adaptations, garnishing a coming-of-age story with understated hints of the supernatural and thoughtful rumination about cellphones that finds true horror in their ubiquity. Amid a month of Halloween-tinged offerings, it might be one of the few

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‘Little Fires Everywhere’ author says new novel’s dystopic vision is ‘plausible — and plausible soon’

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN In best-selling novelist Celeste Ng’s vision of a near-future or alternate America, children of dissident families are displaced from their parents, anti-Asian attacks become a terrible, inescapable fixture of American life and librarians form a secret underground network of rebellion as the stewards of information considered seditious under a sweeping new law.

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The rise of sleep tourism

Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Going on a vacation might seem like a rather unconventional way to try to improve your sleep habits. But sleep tourism has been growing in popularity for a number of years, with an increasing amount of sleep-focused stays popping up in hotels and resorts across the world. Interest has skyrocketed since the

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Fat Bear Week 2022: The voting has started

By Forrest Brown, CNN Spring is for skinny bears and March Madness basketball. Fall, however, is for fat bears — and for Katmai National Park & Preserve’s annual Fat Bear Week and its accompanying tournament of crowning a chubby champion for 2022. And unlike that bracket-busting basketball tourney, you can actually participate in and sway

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