LEGENDARY Scottish actor and comedian Stanley Baxter has died aged 99. Baxter started his career as a child actor on BBC ...

Longtime play-by-play man Joe Buck has been announced as the 2026 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award, which is given by the ...

Between parades, food and football, Thanksgiving Day is full of traditions, which includes the National Dog Show. The 2025 National Dog Show returns with more than 180 breeds competing in the two-hour ...

These books just nabbed one of the most coveted prizes in the literary world. How many have you read? Our editors and experts handpick every product we feature. We may earn a commission from your ...

Novelists sometimes behave like rogue cabdrivers, says Martin Amis. “Half the time they’re taking us where we don’t want to go.” The Lebanese author Rabih Alameddine should know. Flag down a Beiruti ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Jeff Hiller hosted the star-studded Nov. 19 ceremony and Corinne Bailey Rae performed as musical guest Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend ...

NEW YORK (AP) — National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide on Wednesday night, from Lebanese novelist Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” to ...

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Patricia Smith, a Princeton professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has received a National Book Award, the 2025 award for poetry, for “The Intentions of Thunder: New and ...

The National Book Awards’ 2025 fiction prize went to The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), by Rabih Alameddine, a novel about a lapsed writer living unhappily with his mom in ...

The 76th annual National Book Awards have been presented by the nonprofit National Book Foundation, with winners including Rabih Alameddine for fiction, Patricia Smith for poetry, and Omar El Akkad ...

The International Documentary Association will also honor producer Julie Goldman, director Brittany Shyne, and Impact Partners with special awards at the ceremony in Los Angeles on December 6. IDA ...