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After his Tony win, Jonathan Spector returns with a dark, cerebral comedy involving academics and Stalin’s daughter.

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Ali would call it "the closest thing to dying" he had ever known. Half a century later, their brutal finale endures — a descent into boxing's abyss that left two men broken and a sport forever changed ...

Literary biographies are up against explorations of extremism, slavery and wolves for Britain's leading nonfiction book prize.