Arts Oct 08 Marlon James, Laili Lalami are National Book Award nominees None of the finalists has ever won a competitive National Book Award and only four have received any kind of recognition.
Arts Sep 19 National Book Awards longlist includes titles on border wall, Tribe Called Quest Hanif Abdurraqib's best-selling chronicle of A Tribe Called Quest and a memoir by chef Iliana Regan are among the works on the nonfiction longlist for the National Book Awards, as well as Greg Grandin's "The End of the Myth" about…
Arts Sep 10 Groundbreaking photographer Robert Frank dies at age 94 The Swiss-born Frank influenced countless photographers and was likened to Alexis de Tocqueville for so vividly capturing the United States through the eyes of a foreigner.
Arts Aug 06 Toni Morrison, celebrated author and Nobel laureate, dead at 88 Toni Morrison, the first black woman to receive the Nobel literature prize, has died.
Nation Jun 19 Joy Harjo becomes first Native American named U.S. poet laureate Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said in a statement that Harjo helped tell an "American story" of traditions both lost and maintained, of "reckoning and myth-making.
Nation Jun 17 Alan Brinkley, scholar of liberalism, dies at age 70 Brinkley was an academic who traced the evolution of liberalism from the New Deal to the 21st century and was a popular commentator on culture and politics.
Arts Apr 29 John Singleton, Oscar-nominated filmmaker, dies at 51 Singleton, the director of "Boyz N the Hood," made movies that probed the lives of black communities in his native Los Angeles and beyond.
Arts Mar 15 W.S. Merwin, prize-winning poet of nature, dies at 91 A Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate, Merwin completed more than 20 books.
Arts Oct 22 2 rarely seen Hemingway stories will be published next year The director of Hemingway's literary estate, Michael Katakis, told The Associated Press recently that "The Monument" and "Indian Country and the White Army" will be included with a special reissue of the author's classic "For Whom the Bell Tolls."…
Arts Oct 16 PEN America lawsuit alleges Trump is stifling free speech "President Trump has First Amendment rights and is free to criticize the press vehemently, but he is not free to use the power and authority of the United States government to punish and stifle it," the complaint reads.