Arts Dec 09 Literary critics reveal their favorite books of 2025 By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport, Simon Epstein, Daria Nastasia
Arts Dec 09 14 best books of 2025, according to these experts Jeffrey Brown talked with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and author Ann Patchett about their top picks this year. By Jeffrey Brown, Daria Nastasia, Anne Azzi Davenport
Arts Nov 20 Novelist Rabih Alameddine and poet Patricia Smith win National Book Awards The night’s honorees expressed gratitude for prizes bestowed and for literature itself, and horror and disenchantment at the political and social climate, from immigration raids in the U.S. by masked agents to the carnage in the Middle East. By Hillel Italie, Associated Press
Arts Oct 08 WATCH: Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Prize in literature The 71-year-old Krasznahorkai is the first Hungarian winner since 2002. He has previously received the Man Booker International Prize and the National Book Award for Translated Literature in the U.S. By Kostya Manenkov, Jill Lawless, Mike Corder, Associated Press
Arts Jun 26 Judge tosses authors' AI training copyright lawsuit against Meta U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria found that 13 authors who sued Meta “made the wrong arguments.” But the judge also said that the ruling is limited to the authors in the case and does not mean that Meta’s use of… By Matt O'Brien, Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press
Jun 04 Edmund White, groundbreaking bard of gay literature, dies at 85 By Hillel Italie, Associated Press White documented and imagined the gay revolution through journalism, essays, plays and such novels as “A Boy’s Own Story” and “The Beautiful Room is Empty.”… Continue reading
May 05 Novelist Percival Everett, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins among Pulitzer winners in the arts By Hillel Italie, Associated Press Everett’s Pulitzer confirmed the million-selling “James” as the most celebrated and popular U.S. literary novel of 2024, and accelerated the 68-year-old author’s remarkable rise after decades of being little known to the general public. Continue reading
Oct 17 New book reveals what McConnell called Trump behind his back after the 2020 election By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press Mitch McConnell's private comments are by far his most brutal assessment of the former president and could be seized on by Democrats before the Nov. 5 election. Continue reading
Oct 06 WATCH: South Korean author Han Kang wins Nobel Prize for literature By Daniel Niemann, Jill Lawless, Mike Corder, Associated Press Nobel committee chairman Anders Olsson praised Han's "physical empathy for the vulnerable, often female lives" of her characters. Continue reading
May 01 Paul Auster, celebrated and experimental author, dies at 77 By Hillel Italie, Associated Press Called the “dean of American post-modernists” and “the most meta of American meta-fictional writers,” Auster blended history, politics, genre experiments, existential quests and self-conscious references to writers and writing. Continue reading