Books News

The truth may be out there, but making sense out of it isn't easy. Discussion about unidentified flying objects has moved over the years from fodder for science fiction movies or jokes to the subject of congressional hearings . Garrett M.

Mitch Albom’s books often capture the zeitgeist, but his new novel about the fate of Greek Jews during World War II packs a particular punch in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7.

NEW YORK (AP) — English-language editions of a Vietnamese novel set everywhere from Saigon to Paris and of the latest publication of poetry by Egypt's Iman Mersal are this year's winners of National Translation Awards .

Britney Spears' “The Woman in Me” remained the country's top-selling book in its second week of publication, although the pace of sales fell substantially.

MONTREAL — Guardian journalist Tania Branigan's debut book about China's deadly Cultural Revolution has won the US$75,000 Cundill History Prize.

PELLA, Iowa (AP) — Voters in a small Iowa city narrowly decided not to support giving their City Council more power over their local library.

TORONTO — Anuja Varghese's debut short story collection has won the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction, an honour she's calling a triumph for LGBTQ+ and racialized books during a time when literature from marginalized writers is being cens

TORONTO — Former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz has won the National Business Book Award this year. Poloz was nominated for a book called "The Next Age of Uncertainty: How the World Can Adapt to a Riskier Future.

Living in Western diplomatic privilege with cooks and maids and drivers, the women in the new novel “Absolution” spend their days attending luncheons, lectures and cocktail parties as the Vietnam War rumbles in the background.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — She refused to ban books, many of them about racism and the experiences of LGBTQ+ people. And for that, Suzette Baker was fired as a library director in a rural county in central Texas.