The 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
Willie Mays, baseball’s exuberant and electrifying “Say Hey Kid,” has died at 93
June 19, 2024
Noam Chomsky’s wife, Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, says reports that the famed linguist and activist had died are untrue
June 18, 2024
The independent bookstore boom continues
May 23, 2024
Coming this fall: “The Tipping Point,” the sequel
May 29, 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
U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón is launching her intended signature project in April
March 06, 2024
“American Fiction” is an entertaining movie, authors and publishers say
March 05, 2024
Lorrie Moore, Naomi Klein and the Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji are among the finalists for National Book Critics Circle awards
January 25, 2024
A memoir that Lisa Marie Presley had been working on at the time of her death will be published this fall
January 11, 2024
The publishing world made plenty of news in 2023, but not only because of the books themselves
December 08, 2023
