"...In a world where coverage of the arts is an endangered species, this is vital.”

This is not a drill. Philip Pullman has a new book coming in the fall and it's the one we've been waiting for...

Last night the International Association of Culinary Professionals announced the nominees for the 2017 awards...

Bharati Mukherjee, the author of several acclaimed short stories and novels, including Desirable Daughters and Jasmine, has died at the age of 76.

The winners of the biggest awards in children's books have been announced. See which books took home the medals and honors for 2017.

PEN America "champions the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world"...

Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down, died on December 24, at the age of 96.

Though you might have thought of her as Princess Leia, the Mystery Woman from The Blues Brothers, or Sally's best friend in When Harry Met Sally, Carrie Fisher made a name for herself as a bestselling author by being very much herself.

Last night, the National Book Foundation announced the winners of the 2016 National Book Awards.

Picking our best book of the year is a different experience each time. Sometimes it's difficult and sometimes it's easy. In 2016, it was both.

A multi-generational novel that explores the survivors of Mao's Cultural Revolution and reaches to the events of Tiananmen Square, the book was also shortlisted for the UK's Man Booker Prize.

Paul Beatty's The Sellout has won the prize given "to encourage the widest possible readership for the best in literary fiction." Also £50,000. He is the first U.S. writer to win the award.

Today the Swedish Academy awarded Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."