Practical and earthy, with an artist's soul--this is how I've always thought of my dad, who grew up in Flippin and is equally at home in a duck blind and behind a drafting table. As a child in the ...

"The books explore big and timely issues: the ways in which we hide our real selves from those around us, and the contested nature of truth; the way traumatic histories – personal and collective – ...

American writers Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner named finalists for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction.

The 2024 shortlist for the Booker Prize was announced on September 16. The shortlist includes the largest number of women in ...

The Booker Prize 2024 shortlist features five women authors and one male author. The six shortlisted books are: ‘James’ by ...

Announcing the shortlist, chair of the Jury Edmund de Waal, said: “Here is storytelling in which people confront the world in ...

FILE - U.S. writer Percival Everett holds his trophy ... Recommended Videos Everett, a 2022 Booker finalist for “The Trees,” ...

American writers Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner are among six finalists shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction this year, organizers said Monday. Five of the ...

Twelve books have been boiled down to six. Where in previous years a winner would have been obvious by now, this year, we ...

Percival Everett’s “James,” his acclaimed retelling of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” is a fiction ...

In contemporary publishing, novels fixated on the past rather than the present have garnered the most attention and prestige.

To read back-to-back Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, and James, a novel by Percival Everett that reimagines ...