A British police officer was killed, and 10 demonstrators were wounded. In “My Friends,” a Libyan man named Khaled who was ...

There is some hubris in daring to define the key features of a century’s worth of novels, but Edwin Frank admits his book isn ...

The 75th National Book Awards celebrated with a ceremony, comedy from Kate McKinnon and music from Jon Batiste. Percival ...

Happily, there are a host of witty, satirical and downright hilarious books out there, waiting to put a smile back on our faces. From comic novels and memoirs, to essays and poetry, humour has filled ...

USC professor Percival Everett wins the National Book Award for Fiction for 'James,' a retelling of 'Huckleberry Finn' from ...

The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

Percival Everett’s “James,” a daring reworking of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” has won the National Book Award for fiction. Jason De León’s “Soldiers and Kings: ...

Shade and Breeze, by Quynh Tran, has received praise overseas for its elegant portrait of a family riven by events on one day long ago ...

Michael Johnson, professor of English at the University of Maine at Farmington, has recently received the Western Literature ...

Michael Johnson, professor of English at the University of Maine at Farmington, has recently received the Western Literature Association’s 2024 Thomas J. Lyon Award for best book in American western ...

Legendary author Ruskin Bond was given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the second edition of the Ramnath Goenka Sahithya Samman awards by The New Indian Expre ...

The other two members of the gang are not identified. A collector of rare books and documents has obtained a manuscript with new evidence that Butch Cassidy wasn't killed in a 1908 shootout in ...