Books have a remarkable way of touching our hearts and shaping our journey through life. Some stories offer wisdom that lingers long after the final page, guiding us through challenges, relationships, ...

Akkad's "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This," written in response to the Gaza humanitarian crisis, won the National Book Award for nonfiction. Veterans flood Democrat’s office with ...

Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” won in fiction, while Omar El Akkad’s reckoning with Gaza took the nonfiction prize. By Elizabeth A. Harris Omar El Akkad ...

Omar El Akkad at the Portland Book Festival. (Henry Cromett / Courtesy of the Portland Book Festival) Portland author Omar El Akkad won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for One Day, Everyone ...

NEW YORK (AP) — National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide on Wednesday night, including Egyptian-Canadian novelist-journalist Omar El Akkad. The writer, who now lives in Oregon, received ...

When book lovers grabbed William Kent Krueger’s early novels because of Lee Child’s praise on the cover — “Krueger hits the sweet spot every time” — there was just one issue: Child hadn’t read the ...