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Rushdie, who was grievously injured onstage last year, said the forthcoming book was a way “to answer violence with art.”

The candle promises "a sensorial experience like no other." 🛀

Most bets were on Percival Everett’s “James,” but the judges chose Harvey’s “beautiful, miraculous” novel, which is set aboard a space station.

A refugee from Iraq, he explored in popular books the worlds of Jews living in Arabic countries or who fled persecution, and of Arabs living in Israel.

Sandra Day O’Connor has passed away after a six-year battle with dementia.

A poet, scholar and literary critic, she turned a feminist lens on 19th-century writers like Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, creating a feminist classic.

He was an intrepid journalist in Vietnam, Africa and the Middle East before becoming a mainstay news presenter on British TV.

For nearly 50 years, he was ubiquitous on British television — first as a reporter and then as an imperturbable presenter on Independent Television’s “News at Ten.”

In a new memoir, Sarah Hoover grapples with the uglier moments that she and her husband, the artist Tom Sachs, have faced while navigating parenthood.

The actor had to read so many books (153) she bowed out of most family activities. Still, she said, collaborating to pick a winner was worth the sacrifice.