2024 National Book Awards Longlist
The National Book Foundation strives “to celebrate the best literature published in the United States, expand its audience, and ensure…
The National Book Foundation strives “to celebrate the best literature published in the United States, expand its audience, and ensure…
From Lorrie Moore (I am Homeless if This is Not My Home) to Claire Dederer (Monsters) and Khaled Hosseini (The…
Calling all fans of Heartstopper! Whether you’re just getting to know Nick and Charlie or you’ve been here since the…
“It does come down to that moment, when as a reader or as a writer entering into a story we…
Research can lead you to places you never expect. While working on my latest book, The Wager, I found myself…
Getting to the truth isn’t always easy or neat: it can be physically taxing, dusty, and well, messy…if you’re David…
We’ve been fans of James McBride’s work since we first read his memoir, The Color of Water, ages and ages…
For the past couple of years, our booksellers have tapped an outstanding speculative fiction pick in addition to our book…
Sometimes the best stories are the ones where the action never stops or the murderer escapes. Sometimes the best stories…
Jesmyn Ward — two-time winner of the National Book Award and 2017 MacArthur Fellow (the “Genius Grant”) — is one…
Maus is the highly acclaimed graphic novel that changed the way graphic novels were considered and viewed. Both brutal and…
I’ve always been a voracious reader since I was little, but as I grew older, my parents encouraged me to…
You’ve seen the photo, the waifish woman, leaning against a Corvette, cigarette in one hand and the other wrapped around…
The Nobel laureate and towering figure of American letters Toni Morrison died Monday at the age of 88. She leaves behind a…
As with every cultural holiday, St. Patrick’s Day often gets diluted and boiled down to its trappings—the green beer, the…
Today we remember great American author Philip Roth, who entered public consciousness with the elegiac coming of age Goodbye, Columbus, inflamed…
There comes a time in every beloved author’s career when a book blogger must attempt to rank that author’s works.…
Haruki Murakami is one of those writers who’s tipped each year as a Nobel contender; widely acclaimed as a genius, his…
Many readers love the fall, when new novels by well-known authors are apt to appear in bookstores. But some of…