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November 15, 2025

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Salman Rushdie honored with Dayton peace prize lifetime achievement award

November 15, 2025 The Associated Press

DAYTON, Ohio — Salman Rushdie was among the honorees Sunday at the Dayton Literary Peace Prize event in Ohio, receiving a lifetime achievement award after publishing his first work of fiction since being stabbed on […]

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New Children’s Booker Prize to reward quality fiction for kids

November 1, 2025 The Associated Press

LONDON — Britain’s most prestigious literary prize is getting a younger sibling. The Booker Prize Foundation announced Friday that it is setting up the Children’s Booker Prize alongside its existing awards for English-language and translated […]

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Oprah Winfrey picks Megha Majumdar’s ‘A Guardian and a Thief’ for book club

October 25, 2025 Hillel Italie

NEW YORK — Megha Majumdar’s ” A Guardian and a Thief,” already a finalist for the National Book Award and Kirkus Prize, is now Oprah Winfrey’s book club pick. Set in the near future, “A […]

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National Book Foundation announced finalists

October 18, 2025 Hillel Italie

NEW YORK — 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. Last Tuesday, the National […]

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Raymond Chandler’s ‘Nightmare’ revealed in rarely seen sketch

October 11, 2025 Hillel Italie

NEW YORK — In his dreams, Raymond Chandler could conjure tales as unsettling as some of his greatest novels, as if haunted by the spirits of Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe. “Nightmare,” a brief and […]

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Book review: Literary mystery meets dystopian future in Ian McEwan’s ‘What We Can Know’

October 4, 2025 Jill Lawless

LONDON — When novelists look to the future, the view is often grim. There are a lot more fictional dystopias than utopias. Ian McEwan has good news and bad news about what lies ahead in […]

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Book Review: Stranger stalks novelist on book tour in ‘All This Could Be Yours’

September 13, 2025 Bruce DeSilva

Author Hank Phillippi Ryan has written a crime novel titled “All This Could Be Yours” about an author on tour to promote a crime novel titled “All This Could Be Yours.” As Ryan says in […]

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Book Review: Renaissance scholar illuminates brief, transgressive life of poet Christopher Marlowe

September 6, 2025 Ann Levin

The English poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe was born in 1564, the same year as his frenemy William Shakespeare. Yet unless you majored in English in college, it is quite possible you never heard of […]

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Book Review: Teen girl murdered in paradise in twisty thriller ‘High Season’

August 30, 2025 Connie Panzariello

Katie Bishop finds heart and poignancy at the center of her artfully crafted thriller, “High Season,” setting it apart from other by-the-numbers beach reads. At the center of the story is Nina Drayton, who, 20 […]

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Book Review: Jason Mott’s ‘People Like Us’ explores struggles of semi-fame, American identity

August 16, 2025 Clare Solly

How does one follow up writing “A Hell of a Book” that wins the National Book Award? If you’re Jason Mott, you write a sort-of, not-really, by all legal terms fictionalized — according to the […]

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