Lorrie Moore, Attica Locke and Edwidge Danticat will be among hundreds of writers attending this September’s Brooklyn Book Festival, for years one of the literary world’s most anticipated gatherings
July 24, 2024
A book-length thought experiment uses math to investigate some of life’s big questions.
September 18, 2023
Judy Blume, James Patterson and Michael Connelly are among 24 prominent writers who have raised more than $3 million to help PEN America open a center in Miami and expand it efforts to counter Florida’s surge in book bannings in recent years
October 04, 2023
Want to live like Reba McEntire
October 05, 2023
Geraldine Brooks’ “Horse,” a novel about race and forgotten history, and Robert Samuels’ and Toluse Olorunnipa’s “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice” have won awards from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation
October 10, 2023
Now that she’s stepped back from the sport she dominated like few others, Serena Williams is ready to reflect
October 18, 2023
A new study from PEN America finds that tens of thousands of books are banned or restricted by U.S. prisons
October 25, 2023
A good book packs power
November 20, 2023
With the cooperation of the Anne Frank House, a novel based on Frank’s life immediately before she began keeping a diary will be released in September by the children’s publisher Scholastic
January 04, 2024
Ned Blackhawk’s “The Rediscovery of America,” winner last fall of a National Book Award, is a finalist for a history honor presented by the J
February 28, 2024
Allison Winn Scotch has written popular novels including “Cleo McDougall Regrets Nothing” and “Time of My Life.”
March 05, 2024
Claire Jiménez’s “What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez,” a hard-hitting and comic novel set in New York City about a Puerto Rican family’s search for a missing girl, has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
April 02, 2024
Author Don Winslow has announced that his new novel, “City in Ruins,” will be his last
April 02, 2024
Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir “Gender Queer” continues its troubled run as the country’s most controversial book, topping the American Library Association’s “challenged books” list for a third straight year
April 05, 2024
The story of O.J. Simpson’s life was inherently cinematic
April 13, 2024
It turns out that identifying as a reader can be more about community, wealth and gender than how much someone actually reads.
April 30, 2024
Frustrated with the lack of diversity in the fantasy genre, LaDarrion Williams posted a question on Twitter in 2020
May 03, 2024
Author-illustrator Brian Selznick’s next book is for all ages
July 11, 2024
Admiral William H
July 08, 2024
A federal appeals court in New Orleans is taking another look at its own recent order requiring a Texas county to keep eight books on public library shelves that deal with subjects including sex, gender identity and racism
July 07, 2024
US companies see record-low profits in China amid geopolitical tensions and slow growth, report says
Indian state minister to meet Samsung officials in bid to resolve strike
European shares jump 1% on tech boost; ECB meet in focus
Pac-12 targeting Boise St., Fresno St., San Diego St., Colorado St. for rebuild, AP sources say
Murdoch succession battle to play out in Nevada courtroom
Reggie Bush was at his LA-area home when 3 male suspects attempted to break in