The longlists for the 2025 National Book Awards will be rolled out throughout this week. Five finalists in each of the five categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young ...

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Percival Everett’s new novel, “James,” a retelling of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of Huck’s enslaved companion, won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday.

This combination of book covers shows, from left, "The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine, "Things in Nature Merely Grow" by Yiyun Li, and "A Guardian and a ...

Percival Everett has won the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel “James,” a retelling of Mark Twain’s classic “Huckleberry Finn.” “I hope that I have written the novel that Twain did not and ...

A crisp fall wind in the air means it's almost time for the National Book Awards, and this year's finalist list is here. Twenty-five finalists, announced Oct. 7, will vie for the prize in fiction, ...

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 antisemitic ...

On Tuesday, the National Book Awards announced the finalists for prizes in fiction, nonfiction, young people’s literature, translated literature and poetry. The winners will be announced at a ceremony ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Rabih Alameddine, Megha Majumdar and Karen Russell and a memoir of family tragedy by Yiyun Li are among this year’s finalists for the National Book Award. On Tuesday, the ...