Here are just some of the personas inhabited by the artist-provocateur X in Catherine Lacey’s blockbuster novel “Biography of X”: a Montana pool hustler named Dorothy Eagle; the Midwestern folk singer ...

“James,” by Percival Everett won the fiction prize, and Jason Roberts received the biography prize for “Every Living Thing.” By Alexandra Alter Joumana Khatib and Gregory Cowles Nineteen books were ...

Welcome to another America: split between a prosperous, feminist (though still sexist) north and a theocratic south isolated from the world for the past half century by a giant wall. In this country, ...