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

Comedian and author Kate McKinnon, Jon Batiste, Barbara Kingsolver and Percival Everett were among the performers and ...

A Republican trifecta in Washington is raising concerns over the potential for national book ban legislation. Congressional ...

The literary nonprofit has since defended its decision to award Coates its lifetime achievement award, saying he was ...

Paul Coates, father of Ta-Nehisi Coates, was found to have recently republished an antisemitic text from the 1990s.

The following Q&A, which has been edited for length and clarity, is from our March interview with the author, published here ...

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

(Martin died in 2013.) “Even if the books’ quality did not disqualify Coates from a National Book Award, one would expect ...

The National Book Foundation awards winners in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature. This year, publishers submitted a total of 1,917 books.

Jason De León received the nonfiction award for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.” ...

Kate McKinnon hosted the 2024 National Book Awards, which honored authors Percival Everett, Barbara Kingsolver, and Jason De ...

Travel to the American South, Vietnam and beyond with this year’s best cookbooks, memoirs and historic deep dives ...