books

The 2025 Booker shortlist is made up of works by veteran authors, many of whom have several books under their belts — and a couple that have been on this list before.

Clay Risen is a deputy editor at the New York Times and author of “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America.” He’s speaking Thursday at the Filson Historical Society's Gertrude Polk Brown Lecture Series.

A new Pynchon! A Tim Curry memoir! A 600-page doorstopper from a reclusive writer (not named Thomas Pynchon)! The fall is stacked with big book releases. Here's what we're particularly excited for.

Just published this week: A portrait of the lucrative drug-treatment industry; a memoir of a female firefighter; debut fiction from an Emmy-winning TV writer; and a brand new Karin Slaughter thriller.

LGBTQ+ journalist Nico Lang told the story of seven American families with transgender and nonbinary teens in their book, "American Teenager."

The Louisville Free Public Library hopes to spend $2 million on thousands of books to shorten the backlog.

"The Fate of the Day" the second book in a trilogy of the American Revolution, focuses on the middle years. A time where the outcome of the war was hanging in the balance. He speaks about it Monday in Louisville.

Colm Toibin is an Irish author whose best selling novel, “Brooklyn” became an Oscar-nominated film. He has written a follow up to the story titled “Long Island.” Before his appearance Monday night at the Kentucky Author Forum, he spoke with LPM’s Bill Burton.

University of Virginia professor John Owen IV is the winner of the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for World Order for his book, "Ecology of Nations: American Democracy in a Fragile World Order."

Care and Feeding chronicles life in the culinary world. All the Other Mothers Hate Me follows a mom turned amateur detective. Plus, Karen Russell's first full-length novel since Swamplandia!