The final novel from a titan of Latin American literature follows a critic trying to capture the essence of his national culture.

A professor at Hunter College has built one of the largest special collections of contraband Russian literature in the world.

The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...

Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was removed from an English class at the public school. PEN America says it's part of a trend of scrubbing literature dealing with uncomfortable ...

The Florida House voted to make the American flamingo the new state bird, replacing the mockingbird. The bill, which also designates the scrub jay as the state songbird, now moves to the state Senate ...

The 2024 New York Times Best Seller, Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, has inspired Ryan Murphy ‘s latest project: Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, ...

We won’t know who won this year’s Oregon Book Awards until April—but we can start speculating (and reading the nominated books) right now. Literary Arts, the arts nonprofit devoted to supporting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you want to know who the most compelling authors in Oregon are right now, look no further than the list of nominees for the ...

Literary Arts announced the finalists for its coveted 2026 Oregon Book Awards this morning, selecting via juries of out-of-state judges just 35 works from 200 submissions. This list always largely ...

If you want to know who the most compelling authors in Oregon are right now, look no further than the list of nominees for the 2026 Oregon Book Awards, announced Monday. They include a nationally ...

Well that’s certainly one way to juice book sales. Gavin Newsom is sweetening the deal for donors ahead of his expected 2028 presidential run – offering supporters a copy of his memoir in exchange for ...