Jodi Picoult’s ‘Nineteen Minutes’ tops PEN America of books banned in schools
NEW YORK -- Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her…
‘The pictures, they look at you.’ A stroll with novelist John Banville through Spain’s Prado Museum
MADRID -- It’s the eyes peering from the canvases that get him,…
At age 97, pioneering Black businessman George E. Johnson has finally written his memoir
NEW YORK -- As he approached his mid-90s, pioneering Black businessman George…
Tina Knowles to tell her story in ‘Matriarch,’ a memoir scheduled for next year
NEW YORK -- Tina Knowles will have a memoir out next spring…
Book Review: A man searches for meaning in Mike Fu’s unnerving debut novel, ‘Masquerade’
Meadow is coming up on 10 years living in New York, and…
Nick Harkaway steps into his father John le Carré’s footsteps with spy thriller ‘Karla’s Choice’
LONDON -- LONDON (AP) — George Smiley, the subtle fictional spymaster navigating…
Entertainment and lifestyle titan Barry Diller will have memoir out next spring
NEW YORK -- Barry Diller has a memoir coming out next spring,…
Percival Everett’s ‘James’ wins $50,000 Kirkus Prize for fiction
NEW YORK -- Percival Everett's novel “James,” his acclaimed reworking of “The…
Nobel Prize in literature awarded to South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose"
Nobel Prize in literature awarded to South Korean author Han Kang “for…
Reese Witherspoon is teaming with bestseller Harlan Coben on her first suspense novel
NEW YORK -- Reese Witherspoon's latest literary news marks a new direction…
Salman Rushdie, Percival Everett and Miranda July are National Book Award finalists
NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie's memoir a bout…
Book Review: Crystal King combines food, myths and surrealism with ‘In the Garden of Monsters’
Salvador Dali hires a young artist with a striking similarity to the…
Book Review: Sally Rooney’s latest novel ‘Intermezzo’ examines unacknowledged grief
Ivan and Peter Koubek’s father has just died, but neither seems willing…
Rare G.K. Chesterton essay on mystery writing is itself a mystery
NEW YORK -- When he wasn't working on mystery stories, and he…
Jimmy Carter receives Holbrooke award from Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation
NEW YORK -- Less than two weeks before his 100th birthday, former…
Percival Everett, Rachel Kushner and Miranda July are fiction nominees for National Book Awards
Percival Everett’s “James,” his acclaimed retelling of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of…
Florida school district must restore books with LGBTQ+ content under settlement
FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. -- A school district in northeast Florida must put…
Book Review: Brathwaite flexes his writing chops and expands Black literary canon with debut ‘Rage’
There was a class at my university called Black Arts, Black Power.…
Book Review: ‘Category Five’ examines superstorms amid compelling personal memoir
Books about climate change are a dime a dozen these days, but…