Journalism is essential, but it can’t get at certain levels of experience — so I wrote a fable,” he says of “The Emergency,” ...

Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” won in fiction, while Omar El Akkad’s reckoning with Gaza took the nonfiction prize.

Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” criticizes Western indifference to civilian suffering ...

All eyes in publishing are turned to the 76th annual National Book Awards being held in Manhattan. Novels by Megha Majumdar and Karen Russell, and a memoir by Yiyun Li are among the finalists ...

F rom True Grit to No Country for Old Men, novel adaptations have given the Western some of its greatest films, exploring the ...