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They say imitation is the highest form of flattery. But when it comes to ripping off a fellow writer, if you aren’t ...

Featuring 282 reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and YA books; also in this issue: interviews with Oyinkan Braithwaite; Thien Ho; Jeff Kinney; and E. Lockhart; and more One of the most ...

A new young-adult novel by actor Angourie Rice, and her mother, playwright Kate Rice, is coming in 2026, People magazine reports.

Luke Evans will star in a television adaptation of Elizabeth Day’s The Party, Deadline reports.

Alan Hollinghurst has won the David Cohen Prize, given every two years to “a living writer from the U.K. or Republic of Ireland for a lifetime’s achievement in literature.” ...

Garfield had served as president for only a few months, but among U.S. leaders, he was notable in many ways: an intellectually curious man who published a proof of the Pythagorean theorem; a Civil War ...

The Baillie Gifford Prize was established in 1999 and comes with a cash prize of 50,000 British pounds, about $67,000. Previous winners include David Cairns for Berlioz: Vol. II, Servitude and ...

E. Lockhart stopped by CBS Mornings to discuss her latest young adult novel, We Fell Apart.

Diego Luna will direct a film adaptation of Brenda Navarro’s Eating Ashes, publisher W.W. Norton announced in a news release.

Michelle Obama discussed her latest book, The Look, on Good Morning America. The former first lady’s book, co-written with Meredith Koop and scheduled for publication on November 4 by Crown, is “a ...

Jenna Bush Hager has selected Oyinkan Braithwaite’s Cursed Daughters as the latest pick for her Today show book club.