For author Percival Everett, libraries have long been a source of knowledge and discovery and pleasure, even of the forbidden ...

In one of the biggest surveys of its kind, we asked more than 60 Irish writers, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers to pick and then rank their favourite Irish fiction of the ...

NEW YORK — This year’s winners of the Carnegie medals for fiction and nonfiction, presented by the American Library Association, have each checked out a few books in their time. “I work from libraries ...

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Author Kiese Laymon, suspended from college for taking out a library book without permission, can assume he’s been forgiven by the library community. Laymon, whose memoir “Heavy” was one of last ...

Trooper Archer is one of 17 individuals in the United States and Canada to receive a Carnegie Medal for Heroism after they “risked death or serious physical injury to an extraordinary degree saving or ...

Percival Everett's “James” has received yet another literary nomination. Everett's reworking of Mark Twain's “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is among the finalists for an Andrew ...