Kaveh Akbar and Sunil Amrith are the winners of this year’s Dayton Literary Peace Prizes, along with Salman Rushdie, who received a special award for distinguished achievement. The prizes are given ...

An animated series based on E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web is coming next month, People magazine reports. HBO Max will air the three-part limited series in October. News of the series was first ...

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V.E. Schwab and Cat Clarke are collaborating on a thriller novel. Harper will publish The Ending Writes Itself, written under the pen name Evelyn Clarke, next year, the press announced in a news ...

The Irish author Sally Rooney says she cannot travel to the U.K. to collect a literary award because she is afraid she might be arrested, the Guardian reports. Rooney won the Sky ...

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Arthur Sze has been named the 25th U.S. Poet Laureate, the Library of Congress announced in a news release.

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Jung Chang will follow up her bestselling family history, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, with a sequel, 35 years after the original book’s publication.

Amazon Prime has renewed its adaptation of E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars for a second season, Variety reports.