National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide last week, from Lebanese novelist Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” to Chicago-born p ...

Raja has been exhausted by his loving mother for six decades. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Lebanese writer Rabih Alameddine about his book, "The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)." ...

National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide on Wednesday night, from Lebanese novelist Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” to Chicago-bo ...

Based on a viral tweet the author sent early into the Israel-Gaza war, the book maligns Western liberalism for, in El Akkad’s ...

The filibuster. During the shutdown fight, Trump exhorted congressional leaders to kill this procedural hurdle so they could ...

The 76th annual Book Awards have been presented by the nonprofit Book Foundation, with winners including Rabih Alameddine for ...

Rabih Alameddine and Patricia Smith took top honours at the National Book Awards, joining a global slate of winners whose ...

Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” won in fiction, while Omar El Akkad’s ...

At the National Book Awards, Omar El Akkad was announced as the nonfiction winner for his work “One Day, Everyone Will Have ...

The 76th National Book Awards was a night of sobering speeches, soft acoustic performances and bookworms getting down on the ...

Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” criticizes Western indifference to civilian suffering ...

T he National Book Awards’ 2025 fiction prize went to The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), by Rabih ...