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The award winners, announced December 9, 2024, included two first-time authors, as well as two French-language books.

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In 2024, we’ve been spoiled for choice when it comes to recommending fiction. From Samantha Harvey’s spellbinding Booker winner Orbital to Percival Everett’s ambitious retelling of Huckleberry Finn, ...

New Yorker writers and contributors on the books keeping them company this winter. The New Yorker’s editors and critics ...

The novel Of Mice and Men will be removed from GCSE lists in Wales next September over concerns about racism and racial slurs in the book.

Nestled inside three local synagogue libraries are librarians who serve the community as Jewish literary advocates and ...

Classic American novel Of Mice And Men has been removed from the Welsh GCSE curriculum amid concerns about racism. The new ...