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Byline: JOSH O'KANE, BRAD WHEELER The Scotiabank Giller Prize has been reckoning with pushback since last November, when demonstrators were arrested for disrupting its annual award gala to draw attention [...]

Byline: Janet Hook In 'The Washington Book,' the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Carlos Lozada mines a genre known for sanitized prose to revealing effect. THE WASHINGTON BOOK: How to Read Politics [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Illinois Senator Richard J. Durbin: In a speech on the Senate floor, Durbin honored the courage of Kara-Murza, who has continued his [...]

When some books, including best sellers, were conspicuously absent from the science fiction Hugo Awards last year, writers and fans became suspicious. The Hugo Awards, a major literary prize for [...]

United Kingdom: The Booksellers Association has issued the following press release: Jesse Norman's The Winding Stair, Lord Daniel Finkelstein OBE's Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the Association of American Publishers (AAP): Professor Annette Gordon-Reed to Deliver Keynote Address Congresswoman Judy Chu to Receive Distinguished Public Service Award [...]

United Kingdom: The Booksellers Association has issued the following press release: Sebastian Payne's The Fall of Boris Johnson, Baroness Floella Benjamin's What Are You Doing Here? And Michael Ashcroft's In [...]

United Kingdom: The Booksellers Association has issued the following press release: The shortlist for the 2022 Parliamentary Book Awards has been revealed today, celebrating the best political books of the [...]

Byline: Robbie Smith ? ANDREW MITCHELL MP won a prize at last night's Parliamentary Book Awards and sang Britain's praises. He told the audience that after he recently called for [...]

NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rodel Institute is pleased to announce the creation of the https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3690337-1&h=3327385740&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rodelinstitute.org%2Fprograms%2Fedwards-book-prize%2F&a=Edwards+Book+Award, an annual prize recognizing books that make an outstanding contribution to [...]

SILVER SPRING, MD. -- The following information was released by the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T): The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASISandT) is delighted to announce [...]

Byline: Philip Bump A few weeks ago, someone shared an image of the top-10 best-selling 'politics and government' books on Amazon. It included what you'd expect: books about the Trump [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the Library of Congress: Two-Time Pulitzer Winner Is Author of 'The Nickel Boys' and 'The Underground Railroad' Press Contact: Brett Zongker, (202) [...]

Byline: Beth Brogan May 16-- May 16--Boothbay resident Richard Ford, whose novel 'Independence Day' was the first to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, will receive the [...]

Poles began voting on Sunday in a polarising election which the governing populists look set to win on the back of welfare measures and attacks on LGBT rights, but their [...]

Poles began voting on Sunday in a polarising election which the governing populists look set to win on the back of welfare measures and attacks on LGBT rights, but their [...]

Byline: Maureen Corrigan Linda Fairstein has been rightly celebrated by many as a feminist icon. For more than 25 years, she was head of the largely male sex crimes unit [...]

Byline: Molly Boyle, The New Mexican 'I am a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the [...]

content'> Campus National Politics Politics John Archibald is Coming to Columbus The 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary will host a Q&A in the Davidson Cole Trahan, Reporter|August 28, 2018 [...]

Byline: Michal Leibowitz By: Michal Leibowitz Ray Briggs is a professor of philosophy at Stanford, and has published two books of poetry: 'Free Logic' and 'Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined,' in [...]

Last week, the Student Association Senate voted 18 to six, with six abstentions, to approve a resolution that calls for the University to divest from companies that allegedly contribute to [...]

Hip-hop musician Kendrick Lamar received a Pulitzer Prize for his album DAMN. This victory for Lamar is significant, not only for rap music, but for making an important statement in [...]

Five years before he became president, John Kennedy, then a young Massachusetts senator, published Profiles in Courage, the(https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-books-that-will-change-how-you-see-jfk) book that above all others helped voters see him as a serious [...]

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK -- The following information was released by the Oklahoma State Senate: Dr. Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, named by Gov. Mary Fallin as Oklahoma's State Poet Laureate for 2017-2018, [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the Library of Congress: Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or [email protected] The Library of Congress [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the Library of Congress: The Library of Congress is accepting nominations from publishers for the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry. [...]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The following information was released by Vanderbilt University: by Jim Patterson Vanderbilt's Marc Hetherington will be awarded the Alexander L. George Book Award at the July meeting [...]

Robinson honored with fiction award Marilynne Robinson will be awarded the Prize for American Fiction. By Anna Onstad-Hargrave anna-onstad-hargrave@uiowa.edu Marilynne Robinson will soon have another award to add to her [...]

IOWA CITY IA -- The following information was released by the University of Iowa: Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize--winning author and F. Wendell Miller Professor of English and Creative Writing in [...]

Byline: Alison Flood A study of the rise of Ukip was named the political book of the year at a ceremony on Wednesday. Revolt on the Right, by the academics [...]

Worcester, MA -- The following information was released by Clark University: Clark University professor and chair of the political science department Valerie Sperling's recently published book, 'Sex, Politics, and Putin: [...]

Byline: Matt Schudel Tony Auth, a Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist at the Philadelphia Inquirer who turned his pen on politicians, ideologues, religious leaders and authority in all its forms, died [...]

Byline: Valeria Criscione The Norwegian Peace Prize committee has a dilemma this year: how to top last year's surprise award to President Obama. The prize aroused criticism for being awarded [...]