Kirkus announced the jurors for its 2026 Kirkus Prize, given annually in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, and young readers’ literature. The prizes, which come with cash awards of $50,000 in ...

It seems that true crime is all the rage now in pop culture, from books and podcasts to movies and TV shows. This could very ...

Woody Brown’s Upward Bound is the latest pick for Jenna Bush Hager’s Today show book club. Brown’s novel, published Tuesday by Hogarth, follows a group of characters who spend their days at a Los ...

The literary nonprofit PEN America announced the winners of its annual literary awards at a ceremony Tuesday evening in New York. Cannupa Hanska Luger won the $75,000 PEN/Jean Ste ...

The first adult novel from bestselling young adult author John Green is coming later this year. Dutton will publish Green’s Hollywood, Ending in the fall, the press announced in a news release. It ...

Laura Dern will star in a limited-series adaptation of Julie K. Brown’s Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story, Variety reports. The book, published in 2021 by Dey Str ...

Gwyneth Paltrow will star in a film adaptation of Belle Burden’s Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, Variety reports. Burden’s memoir, published in January by Dial Press, is the ...

The narrators for the new audiobook include actors Denée Benton ( The Gilded Age ), Lena Waithe ( The Chi ), Dominique Fishback ( The Deuce ), Nicole Ari Parker ( Empire ), Tika Sumpter ( Gossip Girl ...

Kate McKinnon is bringing her children’s book trilogy to a close, People magazine reports. Alvina Ling Books, an imprint of Little, Brown, will publish the Saturday Night Live a ...

The world is so horrible right now, I’m really only interested in being a champion for the things I think are wonderful,” says the novelist and bookseller.

Lee Forrest never thought he’d write a novel. A long career in scientific research led to two nonfiction books and many articles for Cambridge University Press and other outlets ...

Jaclyn Smith, best known for playing Kelly Garrett on the television series Charlie’s Angels, is working on a memoir, due out this fall, People reports. I Once Knew a Guy Named ...