The organization, which awards the nation’s only major literary prize chose by critics, is sharing six longlists for its 50th anniversary Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster; Harper; Scribner The ...

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W. Paul Coates, the father of journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, has won a prestigious National Book Award despite claims his company published a brazenly antisemitic novel. The National Book Foundation, a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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: Survival and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New fiction by Angela Flournoy and Susan Choi, a memoir of tragedy by Yiyun Li and a novel in translation by Nobel laureate Han Kang were among the nominees announced this week for the ...

Percival Everett’s new novel, “James,” a retelling of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of Huck’s enslaved companion, won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Rabih Alameddine, Megha Majumdar and Karen Russell and a memoir of family tragedy by Yiyun Li are among this year’s finalists for the National Book Award. On Tuesday, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A crisp fall wind in the air means it’s almost time for the National Book Awards, and this year's finalist list is here.

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