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"Rikers: An Oral History," by Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau (Random House) In these times, when people disagree about seemingly everything, just about everyone interviewed for this book concurs on the thesis: the New York City jails on Rikers Island

LONDON (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has signed a deal to write a memoir of his tumultuous time in office, which began with a vow to “get Brexit done” and ended in scandal and resignation.

NEW YORK (AP) — No, the public has not tired of hearing about Prince Harry . Sales for “Spare" have placed the Duke of Sussex in some rarefied company.

TORONTO — Writer Monica Heisey says her own divorce at the age of 28 inspired her novel "Really Good, Actually," because she didn't see her experience reflected in pop culture and wanted to change that.

US Bestseller List - Paid Books 1. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover - 9781501110375 - (Atria Books) 2. It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover - 9781668001233 - (Atria Books) 3.

NEW YORK (AP) — Authors Ottessa Moshfegh and Susan Choi and actors John Turturro and Mary-Louise Parker will be among dozens of featured guests at a Philip Roth tribute in the late novelist's New Jersey hometown.

From the book's opening citation of William Faulkner, to Prince Harry's passionate bond with his wife Meghan, you could almost call the Duke of Sussex's memoir “The Americanization of Prince Harry.

“Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory,” by Janet Malcolm (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) When Janet Malcolm died 18 months ago at 86, her New Yorker colleague Ian Frazier wrote a eulogy for the magazine noting that the famed and feared journalist ha

NEW YORK (AP) — The title alone of Sarah Cooper's upcoming memoir is a hint that she doesn't plan to flatter herself.

NEW YORK (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is working on a memoir. Jackson, the first Black woman appointed to the court, is calling the book “Lovely One.