Kaia Gerber and Cindy Crawford are making their rounds in New York City! The actress, 22, and her supermodel mother, 57, attended the 74th National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday. Posing together before heading into the venue, Gerber and Crawford complemented each other with neutral-toned wardrobe choices.  The Bottoms talent looked chic…

A majority of this year’s finalists at the national book awards made a collective statement calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war at the ceremony in New York on Thursday, amid a storm behind the scenes as sponsors pulled out in anticipation. Twenty of the 25 finalists up for the five categories – fiction,…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. August Blue by Deborah Levy (Hamish Hamilton/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) A virtuoso pianist named Elsa M Anderson skitters around Europe — shadowed all the while by her mysterious doppelgänger — after a performance of Rachmaninoff’s…

Ned Blackhawk received the nonfiction award, with “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.” The National Book Award ceremony took a political turn on Wednesday night, as the event concluded with a joint statement from a group of writers who called for a cease-fire in Gaza. For the final award…

NEW YORK — Justin Torres’ novel “Blackouts,” a daring and illustrated narrative that blends history and imagination in its recounting of a censored study of gay sexuality, has won the National Book Award for fiction. On Wednesday night, the nonfiction prize was awarded to Ned Blackhawk’s “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking…

Hope Hill, Washington Middle School fifth grade teacher, is pictured “holding court” with Nevaeh Gray, Rosa Polanco and Bishop Goodlow. Holding court for fictional literature characters is a new and innovative way Hill has created to teach students. Submitted photo <!– SHOW ARTICLE –> Washington Middle School’s Hope Hill, a fifth grade teacher, is throwing…

by ChessBase 11/16/2023 – Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, author, organiser, commentator, chess book collector and editor-in-chief of the renowned chess magazine “New in Chess”, has conducted numerous interviews with top players over the last four decades. When Sagar Shah, founder and director of ChessBase India, recently visited Holland, he changed roles and interviewed the experienced…

Every year, the National Book Foundation explores titles across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young adult books, and selects 25 works to be eligible for a National Book Award. For the past 10 years, the Vox staff has read them all, and we’re here to share our thoughts on this year’s nominees and winners.…

Your browser does not support the audio element. Zadie Smith Ben Bailey Smith / OPB THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR: On this episode of, “Literary Arts: The Archive Project,” we feature Zadie Smith in conversation with New Yorker staff writer Parul Sehgal. Smith is one of the preeminent fiction writers of our age. She burst onto…

Zibby Owens is the author of “Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature,” and the forthcoming debut novel “Blank.” Owner of Zibby’s Bookshop in Santa Monica, California, Zibby runs Zibby Media and hosts the daily award-winning podcast “Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books,” which has been in the top 200 of the Apple…