The 2024 National Book Awards are in the books! Hosted by Saturday Night Live alum Kate McKinnon, the 75th National Book Awards ceremony, held on Nov. 20 in New York City, crowned five of the best ...

Penguin Press; Picador; Graywolf Press The National Book Critics Circle has announced its finalists and special award winners for the publishing year 2024. On Thursday, Jan. 22, the NBCC ...

Elizabeth Willis, since arriving on the University of Iowa campus a decade ago, has come to epitomize the iconic and esteemed ...

Author Edwidge Danticat is defending "Mama's Nightingale" after a Darien dad challenged the book, saying it "negatively ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett’s “James” is up for another literary award — the PEN/Faulkner Prize for fiction. Other nominees include Louise Erdrich’s “The Mighty Red,” Rachel Kushner’s “Creation ...

The feature debuted at Telluride where it was acquired by Bleecker Street, and later screened at TIFF and NYFF. Watts stars as Iris, a woman who finds her comfortable New York life upended when her ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. A 2023 National Book Award finalist, "Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World" (Vintage Books), by ...

(L-R): Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles, Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino, We're Alone by Edwidge Danticat ...