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Author Banu Mushtaq (left) and translator Deepa Bhasthi won this year's International Booker Prize, for the book <em>Heart Lamp.</em><strong> </strong>

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'Heart Lamp' wins International Booker, with stories of India's Muslim women and girls

The major writing prize awards the best fiction translated into English. Judges called Banu Mushtaq's short story collection "something genuinely new for English readers."

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
Joe Biden attends a roundtable session at the G7 world leaders summit in Italy, June 13, 2024.

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  • Politics

In 'Original Sin,' Jake Tapper describes a 'cover-up' of Joe Biden's decline

Tapper's book, co-authored by Alex Thompson, describes a president who struggled to function: "One person told us that the presidency was, at best, a five-person board with Joe Biden as chairman."

May 20, 2025
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  • Terry Gross
A syndicated, AI-generated summer reading list featuring fake books by real authors was published in major newspapers this week. Above, a reader enjoys the sunshine in Hyde Park in London in 2009.

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How an AI-generated summer reading list got published in major newspapers

Newspapers around the country, including the Chicago Sun-Times and at least one edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, published a syndicated book list featuring made-up books by famous authors.

May 20, 2025
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  • Elizabeth Blair

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  • Book News & Features

5 new books this week spotlight Joe Biden, the WNBA, rivers, migrants and autofiction

New books out this week look at everything from pressing political concerns — Original Sin — to perspective-altering riddles about life itself, like in Is A River Alive? and The Book of Records.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Colin Dwyer
Axios reporter Alex Thompson (left) and CNN's Jake Tapper during an interview at NPR on Thursday.

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This new book explores how Biden's inner circle kept his mental decline from voters

A new book by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson paints the story of how President Biden believed he was capable of serving a second term even though his inner circle hid that he wasn't.

May 19, 2025
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  • Scott Detrow,
  • Courtney Dorning,
  • and 1 more

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  • Book Reviews

'The Emperor of Gladness' is a beautiful novel about hard work and found family

Ocean Vuong's sweeping new novel centers on a depressed 19-year-old college dropout who becomes the caregiver to a widow with dementia.

May 19, 2025
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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  • Book News & Features

Kids notice everything — here's what one child sees 'Next to Me'

When they became parents, Dragons Love Tacos illustrator Daniel Salmieri and artist Sophia Haas noticed that they were ... noticing more. So they wrote Next to Me, their first kids' book together.

May 18, 2025
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  • Samantha Balaban
Novelist Salman Rushdie promotes the German-language edition of his book <em>Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder</em> in Berlin on May 16, 2024. In the book, Rushdie confronts the 2022 attack that left him blind in one eye.

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Man who attacked author Salman Rushdie is sentenced to 25 years in prison

Hadi Matar got the maximum sentence for attempted murder. He was found guilty in February for repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie during a 2022 lecture and wounding another person on stage.

May 16, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman
British author and creator of James Bond Ian Fleming (1908-1964) with two pieces of original artwork from the American hardback editions of his books, circa 1960.

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Newly published stories show a different side of Ian Fleming and Graham Greene

The latest issue of "The Strand Magazine" contains rare stories by the iconic midcentury writers Ian Fleming and Graham Greene.

May 15, 2025
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  • Milton Guevara and
  • Majd Al-Waheidi

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  • Book News & Features

6 new books this week showcase top talent: Ocean Vuong, Ron Chernow and Dave Barry

A host of beloved authors have new books hitting shelves this week, including a memoir by humorist Barry, a Mark Twain bio by Chernow and essays by Richard Russo.

May 13, 2025
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  • Colin Dwyer
Todd Blanche in May 2024 at the Manhattan Criminal Court during the hush money trial of President Donald Trump.

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  • Arts & Life

The President has named a new Acting Librarian of Congress. It's his former defense lawyer.

Todd Blanche, a former personal lawyer for President Trump, is now acting Librarian of Congress. According to his public profile, Blanche has no experience working in libraries or archives.

May 12, 2025
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  • Neda Ulaby

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  • Author Interviews

From apps to gadgets, 'Second Life' considers how tech is changing having a baby

When Amanda Hess learned her unborn child had a genetic condition, she turned to the internet — but didn't find reassurance. "My relationship with technology became so much more intense," she says.

May 09, 2025
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  • Tonya Mosley
Craig Thompson's new graphic memoir, <em>Ginseng Roots</em>, took eight years to complete.

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  • Books

Where does the ginseng in your tea come from? A new graphic memoir explains the trade

Craig Thompson, author of the award-winning graphic memoir Blankets returns with its spiritual successor. It's a look at his childhood growing up on ginseng farms, and the intricate balance of the global ginseng trade.

May 09, 2025
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  • Andrew Limbong

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  • Book Reviews

A filmmaker in Nazi Germany strikes a deal with the devil in 'The Director'

When do compromises turn into full-blown capitulation? Daniel Kehlmann's new novel draws on the true story of German film director G.W. Pabst.

May 08, 2025
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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  • Health

How one writer quit dieting and discovered her strength through weightlifting

Casey Johnston spent years running and restricting calories. When she started weightlifting, she rebuilt muscle mass — and her relationship with her body.

May 08, 2025
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  • Mara Gordon
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