The year 2021 was poised to be a great one for established, fan-favorite authors. We were blessed with new work from a buzzy roster of titans, from Colson Whitehead to Lauren Groff to Kazuo Ishiguro.

The year ahead promises new books from George Saunders, Colson Whitehead, Ann Patchett, Ruth Ozeki, Jesmyn Ward and more ...

This fall, some of the best literary minds will gather in Downtown Brooklyn for the Brooklyn Book Festival, the largest free literary event in New York City, now in its 11th year. Featured authors ...

This is fifth book in Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 and the first recommendation since February 2015′s pick of Cynthia Bond’s Ruby. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead is a powerful novel about a ...

Congressman John Lewis’s March: Book Three won for Young People’s Literature; Daniel Borzutzky’s The Performance of Becoming Human won for Poetry; Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning: The ...

Colson Whitehead's 2019 novel The Nickel Boys follows the studious and idealistic Elwood Curtis, a Black teenager whose prized possession is a recording of speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. But when ...

*Oprah Winfrey chose Colson Whitehead‘s “The Underground Railroad” as the next title for Oprah’s Book Club. The title was originally set for release Sept. 13, but the publisher moved its release date ...