Review: ‘The Heart Principle’ riveting the whole way through
“The Heart Principle,” by Helen Hoang (Berkley)
“The Heart Principle,” by...
Review: Hawkins’ ‘A Slow Fire Burning’ simmers to the end
“A Slow Fire Burning,” by Paula Hawkins (Riverhead Books)
“A Slow...
Belarus closes journalist organization, continuing crackdown
KYIV, Ukraine — Belarus has ordered the closure of the country’s largest independent journalists’ organization, the latest move by authorities to suppress critical reporting...
Award-winning Civil War historian Stephen Oates dies at 85
AMHERST, Mass. — Stephen B. Oates, an award-winning Civil War historian who wrote biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Clara Barton, William...
Luke Combs, Dan + Shay celebrated by peers at ACM Honors
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Dan + Shay, Luke Combs, Rascal Flatts and more country artists were celebrated alongside prominent songwriters, producers and industry leaders at...
Fire damages self-described ‘birthplace’ of Harry Potter
LONDON — A cafe in Scotland's capital where author J.K. Rowling wrote some of the Harry Potter books has been damaged in a fire.
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Winfrey picks ‘Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ for book club
NEW YORK — One of the year's most anticipated debut novels, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers' “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois,” is now an...
Akhtar, Ehrenreich among winners of American Book Awards
NEW YORK — Ayad Akhtar's acclaimed novel “Homeland Elegies," Ben Ehrenreich's environmental warning “Desert Notebooks,” and an illustrated edition of the late William Melvin...
Review: Peter Heller’s `The Guide’ a suspenseful sequel
“The Guide,” by Peter Heller (Alfred A. Knopf)
In his new...
Review: Nichole Perkins celebrates Southern Black womanhood
“Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be,” Nichole Perkins (Grand Central Publishing)
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