NEW YORK − It’s the party where readers swap bookmarks for dance floor boogies, where thick Warby Parker frames make the perfect addition to a good suit. If you’ve ever wanted to get down with the ...

This year’s longlist includes five books by writers who have published short fiction in The New Yorker: Susan Choi, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Karen Russell, Bryan Washington, and Joy Williams. Two ...

Seventy-six years after its founding, the National Book Awards remain a cultural barometer-revealing not just what America reads, but what it values. Each November, while much of the country is ...

Novels by Karen Russell and Bryan Washington are among those vying for the award in fiction, while books about Gaza, foster care and women in Russia are up for the nonfiction prize. By Elizabeth A.

On the evening of November 19, attendees to the 76th National Book Awards crowded into Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan in their black-tie best to witness the announcement of publishing’s highest ...

Patricia Smith, a Princeton professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has received a National Book Award, the 2025 award for poetry, for “The Intentions of Thunder: New and ...

The sheer number of books published in any given year is overwhelming. Even if your local bookstore is particularly well-appointed, it can’t make space for everything publishers have on offer. That ...

Our picks for the books most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture. One of the great pleasures of our work at Christianity Today is getting to spend so much time with books—with the ...

The shortlist for the 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards has been unveiled, featuring a diverse and exciting mix of exceptional writing from both new and established writers across 19 categories.