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Riverhead Books "This utterly compelling novel of love, passion and politics is also a story of personal and revolutionary awakening. Susan Abulhawa weaves a thrilling account of Nahr and her life — from young girl to independent woman — into the larger tapestry of Palestinian dispossession and resistance. Formed through the calamitous experiences of invasion, war, occupation and sexual exploitation, Nahr becomes a political prisoner who is yet free in her own mind. An agent of history and a full-fledged subject of her own existence, Nahr stands at the center of Abulhawa's ambitious epic....

NEW YORK (AP) — Isabel Wilkerson's “Caste,” an acclaimed biography of Malcolm X and fiction by Martin Amis and the late Randall Kenan are among this year's finalists for National

NBCC Awards Finalists Announced Jan 24, 2021 On January 24, the National Book Critics Circle announced 30 finalists in six categories for its annual awards honoring the best books of the previous publishing year. The finalists were named at a virtual "make-up" ceremony celebrating the winners of last year's awards; although the winners were previously announced, last year's ceremony was canceled due to the pandemic. In addition, finalists for the 2020 John Leonard Prize for Best First Book were announced, and winners were named for the $1,000 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence i...

Among the big local stories in the book world: • The publication of "Wilmington's Lie" by New York Times writer David Zucchino, the first history of Wilmington's 1898 violence from a national publishing house. (Atlantic Monthly Press). Zucchino didn't discover 1898; lots of others have written about what's been described as the only successful coup in American history., notably LeRae Umfleet in "A Day of Blood." (Not to mention Philip Gerard's novel "Cape Fear Rising.") Yet Zucchino put the incident in a national context and raised issues just as the Black Lives Matter movement was dawning...