Betty Davis, hard funk pioneer, dead at 77Betty Davis, a bold and pioneering funk singer, model and songwriter of the 1960s and '70s who was credited with inspiring then-husband Miles Davisโ landmark fusion of jazz and more contemporary sounds, has died.
Hanif Abdurraqib, Tom Lin receive Carnegie literary awardsReceiving a literary prize from the American Library Association is a kind of homecoming for the essayist-poet Hanif Abdurraqib.
Whitehead, Jeffers among Book Critics Circle nomineesColson Whiteheadโs โHarlem Shuffle,โ Honorรฉe Fanonne Jeffersโ โThe Love Songs of W.
Lauren Groff, Ibram X. Kendi among Carnegie Medal finalistsLauren Groffโs novel โMatrixโ is among the finalists for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for fiction.
Groff, Doerr are among National Book Award finalistsLauren Groff is a National Book Award finalist for her third consecutive book.
Louis Menand among nonfiction National Book Award nomineesLouis Menandโs Cold War cultural history โThe Free Worldโ and Hanif Abdurraqibโs meditation on Black artistry โA Little Devil in Americaโ are among the works on the nonfiction longlist for the National Book Awards.