LONDON (AP) — British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station that ponders the beauty and fragility of Earth. Harvey was awarded the 50,000-pound ($64,000) prize...
NEW YORK (AP) — “The Handmaid's Tale” is selling again. Since President-elect Donald Trump clinched his return to the White House, Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic about a country in which women are brutally repressed has been high on the Amazon.com best seller list. “The...
NEW YORK (AP) — Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her novel “Nineteen Minutes," a 2007 bestseller about a school shooting that now tops a list compiled by PEN America of the books most banned in schools. “Not only was it recommended for young adults to read,...