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 ...

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 ...

This combination of book cover images shows "Things in Nature Merely Grow" by Yiyun Li, left, "A Guardian and a Thief" by Megha Majumdar, center, and "The Antidote" by Karen Russell. (Farrar, Straus ...

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 ...

"I just did it,” the 'Getting Naked' author told PEOPLE at the 2025 'Food & Wine' Classic in Charleston about the partially nude photo shoot for her upcoming memoir Emily Rella is a Food Editor at ...

This year marks 100 years since the birth of Arena Wati, one of the towering figures of Bahasa Malaysia literature. Born Muhammad Abdul Biang on July 30, 1925, in Makassar, Indonesia, he went on to ...

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In his latest book "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This," El Akkad confronts the silences that enable injustice, urging readers to reckon with complicity, narrative power, and the ...

Omar is an experienced editor and writer who sees life and storytelling as one and the same — there’s always a story to tell. When not behind his keyboard, Omar is living his best life, whether that’s ...

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