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Secrets feed on time in the masterful novel 'Mothers and Sons'

9:38am January 31, 2025

Adam Haslett's compelling novel focuses on the strained relationship between an asylum lawyer and his mother. It's a beautiful appreciation of the all-too-human mess of life.

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Here are the new books we're looking forward to this fall

7:00am September 04, 2024

Bad news: Summer's over. Good news: Fall books are here! We've got a list of 16 titles — fiction and nonfiction — you'll want to look out for.

Book covers of: Like Other Girls; The Dating Playbook; Before the Ever After; Snapped; The Redshirt: A Novel; The Right Swipe: A Novel

Pregame the Super Bowl with our favorite football fiction

10:46am February 08, 2024

by Beth Novey

Of course, leave it to the gigantic nerds at NPR to throw a literary tailgate ... but to thine own self be true, even if it means getting stuffed into your locker later this afternoon.

In Apple TV+'s Slow Horses, Gary Oldman plays Jackson Lamb, the slovenly, brilliant spy who's in charge of a group of failed British spies. The series is based on Mick Herron's Slough House novels. Herron says Lamb might not have "a heart of gold" but he does have "a moral code."

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Gary Oldman had 'free rein' in spy thriller 'Slow Horses' — now back for Season 3

5:05pm November 29, 2023

by Elizabeth Blair

Oldman plays the slovenly leader of failed British spies in the Apple TV+ drama, based on Mick Herron's Slough House novels. Herron is more interested in the character's failures than his virtues.

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka holds his book The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida at the Shaw Theatre in London on Oct. 14. On Monday, his novel won the 2022 Booker Prize.

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins 2022 Booker Prize

5:48pm October 17, 2022

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

The prestigious award was given to The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which the judges hailed as "a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war."

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Big city devotees find romance in a small town in Emily Henry's 'Book Lovers'

5:00am May 05, 2022

by Carole V. Bell

The playful and clever story pokes holes in pop culture assumptions about small towns from Hallmark movies to romance novels as two rivals in the publishing world find love far from the city lights.

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What Code Switch Listeners Are Reading During The Pandemic

5:23pm October 23, 2020

by Natalie Escobar

Some want escapist reads to distract themselves during these times, while others are turning to books that lean into the darkness and dread of the pandemic.

Christy Lefteri's novel The Beekeeper of Aleppo has won the third annual Aspen Words Literary Prize.

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'The Beekeeper Of Aleppo' Wins 2020 Aspen Words Literary Prize

8:07pm April 16, 2020

by Colin Dwyer

Christy Lefteri's novel of the Syrian refugee crisis won the third annual award, which doles out $35,000 for fiction that illuminates a pressing social issue.

Just five books have been named finalists for the 2020 Aspen Words Literary Prize: Patsy, by Nicole Dennis-Benn; Lost Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli; Lot, by Bryan Washington; Opioid, Indiana, by Brian Allen Carr; and The Beekeeper of Aleppo, by Ch

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5 Finalists Still Have A Chance At Aspen Words Literary Prize

11:21am February 19, 2020

by Colin Dwyer

The annual award, doled out in partnership with NPR, honors fiction that doesn't shy from grappling with thorny social issues. Just one of the five books remaining will win $35,000 come April.

Winners of this year's National Book Awards each receive $10,000 along with their prize.

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National Book Awards Handed To Susan Choi, Arthur Sze And More

10:04pm November 20, 2019

by Colin Dwyer

The novelist and poet joined Sarah M. Broom, László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet, and Martin W. Sandler as winners Wednesday night — receiving $10,000 and a medallion for their front covers.