NEW YORK (Reuters) - Writers James McBride and George Packer won National Book Awards, among the most prestigious literary prizes in U.S. publishing, at a gala dinner on Wednesday that also honored ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. “We live in an age of human self-contempt,” George Packer wrote this week. In an essay ...

On Monday, March 17th, Traverse City’s National Writers Series hosts George Packer. Packer won the 2013 National Book Award for his book The Unwinding. Benjamin Busch, the award-winning author of the ...