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Leslie Epstein, the novelist, essayist, and longtime writing professor, has died at 87, the New York Times reports. Epstein, a Los Angeles native, was the son of Philip G. Epstein, the screenwriter ...

A debut author blends autobiography and ethnography in this exploration of Sierra Leone in the 1980s. The recent history of Sierra Leone is one often associated with violence, disease, and tragedy.

What beats sinking into a good book in an easy chair by the fire, feet up and a dozy cat on your lap? Not much, except maybe languidly dipping into a frothy paperback poolside, piña colada at the ...

Bill Gates has released his annual summer reading list, consisting of five memoirs that the business executive and philanthropist says helped inspire his own. Microsoft co-founder Gates published his ...

Heart Lamp, written by Banu Mushtaq and translated by Deepa Bhasthi, is the first story collection to win the International Booker Prize, given annually to a work of fiction translated into English ...

Gabriel Tallent is making a return with his first novel in more than eight years. Riverhead will publish Tallent’s Crux next year, the press announced in a news release.It will be the author’s second ...

Robot Roz undertakes an unusual ocean journey to save her adopted island home in this third series entry. When a poison tide flowing across the ocean threatens their island, Roz works with the ...

Canadian author Michael Crummey has won the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, given annually to “a single work of international fiction, whether originally written in English or translated into it,” for his ...

Every book lover has an ideal summer reading set-up: Maybe you like to read on the beach, with the sun beating down and the waves breaking at your feet, or on an airplane with no Wi-Fi, anticipating ...

First lady Melania Trump has released an audiobook edition of her memoir with an artificial-intelligence narrator. Trump made the announcement on the social platform X, in a post that reads, “A NEW ...