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)." ...

NEW YORK (AP) — National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide on Wednesday night, from Lebanese novelist Rabih ...

Author Rabih Alameddine won for his novel The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother). Other winners include a ...

The National Book Awards 2025 in the United States, often heralded as "the Oscars of book publishing," celebrated a powerful ...

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

The nonfiction winner considers Gaza and the West; other winners include Rabih Alameddine, Daniel Nayeri, Patricia Smith ...

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

The National Book Awards’ 2025 fiction prize went to The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), by Rabih ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Rabih Alameddine, Megha Majumdar and Karen Russell and a memoir of family tragedy by Yiyun Li are among this year’s finalists for the National Book Award. On Tuesday, the ...

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 ...

Two powerful voices, novelist Rabih Alameddine and poet Patricia Smith, win National Book Awards, offering moving, culturally ...

Writing “The Angel of History” began with anger, says author Rabih Alameddine. An unidentified anger that suddenly sprouted for a period a few years ago. Early on in Alameddine’s fourth novel, ...