For decades, Robert Lecker has read, taught and written about Alice Munro, the Nobel laureate from Canada renowned for her short stories
July 16, 2024
At the heart of JD Vance’s journey from venture capitalist to vice presidential candidate is a memoir he first thought of in law school, “Hillbilly Elegy.”
July 15, 2024
Weeks after being let go as the publisher of Alfred A
July 11, 2024The Library of Congress has awarded a lifetime achievement prize to James McBride, whose acclaimed novels include “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” “Deacon King Kong” and “The Good Lord Bird.”
July 11, 2024An upcoming thriller about a female judge in the contemporary, rural South will have two very famous, and very different, authors, Oscar winner Viola Davis and mega-selling novelist James Patterson
July 09, 2024
Dr. Anthony Fauci has a memoir coming out in June, a look back at his long career as an infectious disease expert and the many outbreaks he contended with, from AIDS/HIV to the COVID-19 pandemic
February 08, 2024
Critics have long debated which books qualify as a ‘Great American Novel
July 03, 2024
Jayne Anne Phillips’ “Night Watch,” a mother-daughter saga set in a West Virginia asylum after the Civil War, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
May 06, 2024
Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of "Shampoo," "The Last Detail" and other films whose script for "Chinatown" became a model of the art form and helped define the jaded allure of his native Los Angeles, has died
July 02, 2024
A posthumous book by Victoria Amelina, the Ukrainian author killed last year during a Russian missile strike, will be published in February upon the war’s third anniversary
July 01, 2024The National Book Award longlist for young people’s literature features a range of grownup topics, from the deadly famine in Ukraine in the 1930s to the 1963 March on Washington to the underpinnings of the Internet
September 13, 2023Deesha Philyaw struggled to find a publisher for what became her acclaimed debut “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.”
September 14, 2023A comprehensive new biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, a memoir on family by the prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen and an exploration of the crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s are among 10 books on the nonfiction longlist of the National Book Awards
September 14, 2023Historical novels by Jayne Anne Phillips and Paul Harding and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s dystopian prison novel “Chain-Gang All-Stars” are among the nominees on the National Book Awards long list for fiction
September 15, 2023
Dave Eggers' “The Eyes & the Impossible,” the great adventure of a very fast dog, has received the John Newbery Medal for the year’s best children’s book
January 22, 2024Pedro Almodóvar has finally gotten around to that memoir admirers have wanted him to write
January 29, 2024Sally Rooney will have a new novel out this fall, “Intermezzo,” a story of love, family and grief centered around two brothers
February 29, 2024Bannings and attempted bannings of books continue to hit record highs
March 13, 2024Imprisoned Vietnamese author-blogger-journalist Pham Doan Trang will be this year’s recipient of PEN America’s Barbey Freedom to Write Award, given by the free expression organization to a “jailed writer of conscience.”
April 11, 2024Facing widespread unhappiness over its response to the Israel-Hamas war, the writers’ group PEN America has called off its annual awards ceremony
April 22, 2024PEN America has canceled its annual World Voices Festival, as the literary and free expression organization continues to face widespread unhappiness with its response to the Israel-Hamas War
April 26, 2024Hillary Clinton’s next book is a collection of essays, touching upon everything from marriage to politics to faith, that her publisher is calling her most personal yet
June 25, 2024
Filmmaker Norman Jewison has died at 97
January 22, 2024
Two top editors at Penguin Random House are leaving as the country’s leading trading publisher continues to transform during a period of uncertain revenues and generational change
May 20, 2024Willie Mays, baseball’s exuberant and electrifying ‘Say Hey Kid,’ has died at 93
June 19, 2024
SAIC Volkswagen says adjusting plant base "necessary"
Low brow and vulgar? Micro dramas shake up China's film industry, aim for Hollywood
Harris campaign reports spending nearly three times as much as Trump in August
India's Manipur on high alert over influx of 900 militants from Myanmar
Quad to expand maritime security cooperation at Biden's farewell summit
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Phillies clinch 3rd straight playoff berth and close in on NL East title