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The major writing prize awards the best fiction translated into English. Judges called Banu Mushtaq's short story collection "something genuinely new for English readers."

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Dawn Staley, the coach of the University of South Carolina women's basketball team, about her new memoir and successful career.

Newspapers around the country, including the Chicago Sun-Times and at least one edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, published a syndicated book list featuring made-up books by famous authors.

Tapper's book, co-authored by Alex Thompson, describes a president who struggled to function: "One person told us that the presidency was, at best, a five-person board with Joe Biden as chairman."

Peniel Joseph writes about this pivotal year in his new book, "Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution."

The book centers around the family of an English earl and a former Hong Kong supermodel whose fortunes appear to depend on their son marrying money. It's out in paperback today.

New books out this week look at everything from pressing political concerns — Original Sin — to perspective-altering riddles about life itself, like in Is A River Alive? and The Book of Records.

Journalist Karen Hao has written a book called "Empire of AI," which details the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with CNN Anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson about their new book Original Sin.

A new book by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson paints the story of how President Biden believed he was capable of serving a second term even though his inner circle hid that he wasn't.