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Book Review: 'The Book of George' is a witty novel in lively episodes like a first-rate TV sitcom

Book Review: 'The Book of George' is a witty novel in lively episodes like a first-rate TV sitcom

鈥淭he Book of George鈥 is a novel of many finely crafted, often funny moments that arrive episodically as the title character grows older. At first he鈥檚 a millennial kid, then a college guy as the Twin Towers fall on 9/11.
Book Review: Paula Hawkins returns with psychological thriller 鈥橳he Blue Hour'

Book Review: Paula Hawkins returns with psychological thriller 鈥橳he Blue Hour'

Since bursting on the scene in 2015 with 鈥淭he Girl on a Train,鈥 Paula Hawkins has established herself as a reliable writer of psychological thrillers set in the U.K.
Book Review: Deborah Levy's 'The Position of Spoons' may be just for the diehard fans

Book Review: Deborah Levy's 'The Position of Spoons' may be just for the diehard fans

Deborah Levy is a celebrated novelist, memoirist and playwright whose latest book 鈥 鈥淭he Position of Spoons鈥 鈥 is a petite collection of essays spanning the last few decades of her career.
Ian Williams dissects conversation in 'What I Mean to Say,' upcoming Massey Lectures

Ian Williams dissects conversation in 'What I Mean to Say,' upcoming Massey Lectures

TORONTO 鈥 As a fiction writer, Ian Williams has dissected conversation. He's learned its rhythm and texture, found its liver and lungs, so he can transmute it into dialogue on the page.
Cundill History Prize finalists include books on early North America, post-WWII Japan

Cundill History Prize finalists include books on early North America, post-WWII Japan

Books about the civilizations of pre-colonial Indigenous North America, the early Black civil rights movement and post-Second World War Japan are finalists for the US$75,000 Cundill History Prize.
Reese Witherspoon is teaming with bestseller Harlan Coben on her first suspense novel

Reese Witherspoon is teaming with bestseller Harlan Coben on her first suspense novel

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Reese Witherspoon's latest literary news marks a new direction for the Oscar-winning actor, producer and founder of her own book club.
M.G. Vassanji among finalists for Balsillie Prize for Public Policy

M.G. Vassanji among finalists for Balsillie Prize for Public Policy

TORONTO 鈥 Celebrated novelist M.G. Vassanji's exploration of the emigrant experience is among the finalists for the $60,000 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy. The Writers' Trust of Canada announced this year's short list on Wednesday morning.

Amazon pulls Kim Porter memoir about Sean 'Diddy' Combs that her children say is fake

Amazon confirmed Tuesday the removal of a memoir from its site that purports to tell the story of an abusive relationship between the late actor and model Kim Porter and her longtime partner, hip-hop mogul Sean 鈥滵iddy" Combs.
Salman Rushdie, Percival Everett and Miranda July are National Book Award finalists

Salman Rushdie, Percival Everett and Miranda July are National Book Award finalists

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Salman Rushdie's memoir a bout his near-fatal stabbing, 鈥淜nife,鈥 and Percival Everett's revisionist historical novel, 鈥淛ames," are among the finalists for the 75th annual National Book Awards.
After playing Weird Barbie, Kate McKinnon's new children's book also celebrates being uniquely you

After playing Weird Barbie, Kate McKinnon's new children's book also celebrates being uniquely you

If you find it odd that Kate McKinnon chose her first book to be for middle-grade kids, the former 鈥淪aturday Night Live鈥 star says, think again. 鈥淚 find sketch comedy and middle school to be very similar,鈥 she said recently over Zoom.
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