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Review: Vietnam vets try to help nation they once attacked

Review: Vietnam vets try to help nation they once attacked

鈥淭he Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace and Redemption in Vietnam,鈥 by George Black (Knopf) In the U.S., we鈥檝e mostly moved on from our military engagements in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
BET co-founder, sports exec Sheila Johnson to publish memoir

BET co-founder, sports exec Sheila Johnson to publish memoir

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 The philanthropist, sports franchise executive and co-founder of Black Entertainment Television, Sheila Johnson, has a memoir scheduled for September.
Review: Prohibition-era tale 鈥楬ang the Moon鈥 goes down easy

Review: Prohibition-era tale 鈥楬ang the Moon鈥 goes down easy

鈥淗ang the Moon鈥 by Jeannette Walls (Scribner) Jeannette Walls burst on the scene with her intensely personal memoir 鈥淭he Glass Castle鈥 in 2005.
Kate Beaton's graphic memoir 'Ducks' gives insight into working at Alberta's oilsands

Kate Beaton's graphic memoir 'Ducks' gives insight into working at Alberta's oilsands

When Kate Beaton migrated west to work in Alberta's oilsands, she didn't know what to expect 鈥 other than a job that would allow her to pay down her student loans.
Q-and-A: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa on democracy and disinformation

Q-and-A: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa on democracy and disinformation

TORONTO 鈥 Maria Ressa's coverage of how online disinformation campaigns helped support an authoritarian regime in the Philippines led to her winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021, but she says more work needs to be done to hold social media companies

Judge rules online archive's book service violated copyright

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 A federal judge has sided with four publishers who sued an online archive over its unauthorized scanning of millions of copyrighted works and offering them for free to the public. Judge John G. Koeltl of U.S.
Ling Ma, Beverly Gage among authors honored by book critics

Ling Ma, Beverly Gage among authors honored by book critics

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Ling Ma's sharp and surreal 鈥淏liss Montage鈥 and Beverly Gage's sweeping biography of the late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, 鈥淕-Man,鈥 were among the winners Thursday night of the National Book Critics Circle awards .
Book ban attempts hit record high in 2022, library org says

Book ban attempts hit record high in 2022, library org says

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Attempted book bans and restrictions at school and public libraries continue to surge, setting a record in 2022, according to a new report from the American Library Association released Thursday.

Writers' Trust launches new $75K international prize for non-fiction

TORONTO 鈥 The Writers' Trust of Canada has announced a new $75,000 prize for international authors who have penned non-fiction works. The Weston International Award will honour a non-Canadian author's body of work.

Sly Stone book to be released through new Questlove imprint

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Questlove has his own book imprint and is launching it with a memoir by one of the world's most influential and enigmatic musicians, Sly Stone, leader of Sly and the Family Stone.
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