While on tour for his new book about a West Bank tragedy, Nathan Thrall reflects on how this week's horrors change everything. Plus, more books news of the week
After Drew Barrymore's invitation was rescinded last month amid the Hollywood strikes, LeVar Burton is announced as the new host of the 74th National Book Awards.
On his deathbed, French botanist Michel Adanson repeats the word "Maram" over and over to his daughter Aglaé. The Wolof woman to whom the name belongs is a larger-than-life character in French-Senegalese writer David Diop's novel "Beyond the Door of No Return," inspired by Adanson's life.She calls t