This year’s shortlist includes five books by women – the highest number in the prize’s 55-year history. But it’s the only man on the list who is holy tipped to win the coveted prize.
2024 has seen the much anticipated return of Sally Rooney, whose fourth novel Intermezzo is arguably her best effort to date, ...
A competing letter organized by a pro-Israel group has drawn more than 1,000 signatories, including the authors Cynthia Ozick and Howard Jacobson.
In "James," Percival Everett — whose work is characterized by irony and satire — has written a highly entertaining story ...
James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action-packed reimagining of ... All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books: ...
American Fiction” author successfully reimagines the American classic "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in his latest novel.
The six authors on the short list for this year's Booker Prize in mid-September are doubtless waiting to see who emerges triumphant on Nov. 12, when the winner is announced at a ceremony in London.
Ernest Hemingway famously said in 1935 that all “modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn… It’s the best book we’ve had.” James, the outcome of Everett’s ...
Thousands of people, including prize winning writers, signed a letter pledging not to work with “complicit” organizations.
Over the past several months, I’ve settled into a routine that involves reading one book at a time on paper or on the Kind ...
Among the books on the shortlist for the award, which will be announced on November 28 are Sally Rooney ’s Intermezzo (Faber) and James by Percival Everett (Mantle). Ferdia Lennon's Glorious ...
FROM code-switching to holding internal debates with philosophers such as John Locke and Voltaire, African-American author Percival Everett’s bold new novel titled James radically changes the ...