W. Paul Coates, the father of journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, has won a prestigious National Book Award despite claims his company published a brazenly antisemitic novel. The National Book Foundation ...

The 2024 National Book Awards are in the books! Hosted by Saturday Night Live alum Kate McKinnon, the 75th National Book Awards ceremony, held on Nov. 20 in New York City, crowned five of the best ...

The National Book Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2024 National Book Awards. The winners in each of the five categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature ...

A total of 1,917 books were submitted for the National Book Awards, which honors fiction, nonfiction, young people's literature, poetry and translated literature Kimberlee Speakman is a digital ...

It’s time for the literary world’s most coveted night – the 2024 National Book Awards. Twenty-five finalists, announced Oct. 1, will vie for the prize in fiction, nonfiction, poetry ...

Hundreds attended the 2024 National Book Awards, but despite the tuxedos, gowns and lofty gilded ceilings, the 75th annual ceremony felt more intimate than stuffy. Booklovers and publishers sang ...

(JTA) — As the National Book Awards gears up for its annual literary awards show this Wednesday, the foundation is defending its decision to honor someone who recently republished an infamous ...

At the 75 th National Book Awards, hosted in Manhattan at Cipriani Downtown last night, members of the literary community gathered to celebrate some of the year’s best writing across Fiction ...

In February, 2023, David Remnick profiled Salman Rushdie after a near-fatal stabbing. “Knife,” which recounts the attack and its aftermath, is one of the titles on this year’s longlist ...

The National Book Awards on Tuesday announced the finalists for this year’s prizes. Making the shortlist for the 2024 prize for fiction is Miranda July’s All Fours—a book described by The ...