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It's been nearly 25 years since Malcolm Gladwell published “The Tipping Point," and it's still easy to catch it being read on airplanes, displayed prominently on executives' bookshelves or hear its jargon slipped into conversations.

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich (“The Night Watchman,” 2021) returns with a story close to her heart, “The Mighty Red.

The seeds of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's later cinematic work are scattered throughout the pages of “The Last Dream,” his newly published collection of short writings.

Former Ohio Supreme Court Justice Herb Brown celebrated his 93rd birthday on Friday with the release of his latest book — and a plug for democracy. As he promoted “Darkness Lies in Wait,” Brown said he had fall elections on his mind.

NEW YORK (AP) — A Belarus book publisher forced to operate out of Poland because of persecution from its own government is being honored by the trade association representing U.S. publishers.

NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia is working on a children's book centered on a generous boy and a proliferating baloney sandwich and inspired by a Biblical miracle.

NEW YORK (AP) — Although it's a bestseller on Amazon, the late Kim Porter did not write a tell-all memoir detailing an abusive relationship with her longtime partner Sean “Diddy” Combs, her children said in a statement Tuesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country's first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award.

TORONTO — Poet-novelists Canisia Lubrin and Fawn Parker are among the authors shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. The Writers' Trust of Canada announced the finalists for the $60,000 prize on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Although it's a bestseller on Amazon, the late Kim Porter did not write a tell-all memoir detailing an abusive relationship with her longtime partner Sean “Diddy” Combs, her children said in a statement Tuesday.