Books and literature

Jodi Picoult’s ‘Nineteen Minutes’ tops PEN America of books banned in schools

NEW YORK -- Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her novel “Nineteen Minutes," a 2007 bestseller about a…

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‘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, their gaze piercing the boundary between art and…

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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 E. Johnson unexpectedly found himself determined — even…

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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 with a title that will not surprise her…

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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 he’s still adrift. His boyfriend ghosted him, his…

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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 treacherous Cold War currents, is back.And so, somewhat…

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Entertainment and lifestyle titan Barry Diller will have memoir out next spring

NEW YORK -- Barry Diller has a memoir coming out next spring, covering a life that could fill multiple volumes.…

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Percival Everett’s ‘James’ wins $50,000 Kirkus Prize for fiction

NEW YORK -- Percival Everett's novel “James,” his acclaimed reworking of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” has won a $50,000…

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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 her intense poetic prose"

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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 for the Oscar-winning actor, producer and founder of…

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Salman Rushdie, Percival Everett and Miranda July are National Book Award finalists

NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie's memoir a bout his near-fatal stabbing, “Knife,” and Percival Everett's revisionist…

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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 goddess Proserpina to model for him in the…

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Book Review: Sally Rooney’s latest novel ‘Intermezzo’ examines unacknowledged grief

Ivan and Peter Koubek’s father has just died, but neither seems willing to talk much about it, let alone to…

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Rare G.K. Chesterton essay on mystery writing is itself a mystery

NEW YORK -- When he wasn't working on mystery stories, and he completed hundreds, G.K. Chesterton liked to think of…

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Jimmy Carter receives Holbrooke award from Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation

NEW YORK -- Less than two weeks before his 100th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter is receiving a lifetime achievement…

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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 Huckleberry Finn,” is a fiction nominee for the…

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Florida school district must restore books with LGBTQ+ content under settlement

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. -- A school district in northeast Florida must put back in libraries three dozen books as part…

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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. Lester Fabian Brathwaite’s “Rage” would fit snugly right…

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Book Review: ‘Category Five’ examines superstorms amid compelling personal memoir

Books about climate change are a dime a dozen these days, but a new one by Porter Fox, who grew…

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