Skip to content

Books News

Fictional fiction: A newspaper's summer book list recommends nonexistent books. Blame AI

Fictional fiction: A newspaper's summer book list recommends nonexistent books. Blame AI

NEW YORK (AP) — The recommended reading list contained some works of fiction. It also contained some works that were, in fact, actually fictional.
Indian author Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker Prize with short story collection

Indian author Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker Prize with short story collection

LONDON (AP) — Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Heart Lamp,” a collection of 12 short stories written over a period of more than 30 years and which chronicle the everyd
Gloria Steinem and Leymah Gbowee, activists and close friends, are working on a picture book

Gloria Steinem and Leymah Gbowee, activists and close friends, are working on a picture book

NEW YORK (AP) — Two giants of the women's rights movement, Gloria Steinem and Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee , have teamed up for a picture book with the mission of inspiring young people to change the world.
Book Review: New essays from writer Richard Russo on how his life informs his art

Book Review: New essays from writer Richard Russo on how his life informs his art

Richard Russo, whose “Fool” trilogy is beloved for the characters he created to populate a fictional upstate New York town, freely admits he’s always pulled from his real life to write his novels.
Nova Scotia-shot 'Washington Black' to make summer premiere on Disney Plus

Nova Scotia-shot 'Washington Black' to make summer premiere on Disney Plus

TORONTO — The limited series adaptation of Esi Edugyan's 2018 Giller Prize-winning novel "Washington Black" will arrive on Disney Plus this summer.
Tradition and change intertwine to create beauty at a century-old arboretum

Tradition and change intertwine to create beauty at a century-old arboretum

OYSTER BAY, N.Y. (AP) — Some places seem to communicate with you when you visit. Not audibly, of course, but they somehow impart the echo of a life lived long ago. That’s the feeling I get at Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park.
Book Review: Donal Ryan’s spellbinding sequel in 21 voices continues the saga of a small Irish town

Book Review: Donal Ryan’s spellbinding sequel in 21 voices continues the saga of a small Irish town

In 2014 Donal Ryan published a novel in the U.S. called “The Spinning Heart” about a rural Irish town after the 2008 financial collapse.

US-Apple-Books-Top-10

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List) 1. Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 2. Great Big Beautiful Life: Reese’s Book Club by Emily Henry (Penguin Publishing Group) 3. My Friends by Fredrik Backman (Atria Books) 4.
Natalie Sue's 'I Hope This Finds You Well' among Leacock humour writing prize finalists

Natalie Sue's 'I Hope This Finds You Well' among Leacock humour writing prize finalists

Calgary writer Natalie Sue's debut novel about the absurdities of office life is one of three finalists for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.
Book Review: Ocean Vuong takes existentialism to deeply intimate level in 'The Emperor of Gladness'

Book Review: Ocean Vuong takes existentialism to deeply intimate level in 'The Emperor of Gladness'

Hai is 19 and suicidal. Grazina is 81 and living alone with dementia.
push icon
Be the first to read breaking stories. Enable push notifications on your device. Disable anytime.
No thanks