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TORONTO — Margaret Atwood’s next book will be an autobiography. Her Canadian publisher McClelland & Stewart says it will peel back the curtain on Atwood’s writing and "the sparkling inner workings" of her imagination.

Kelsey McKinney bookends her new collection of essays on gossip with a word from Emily Dickinson: “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police raided a long-established Palestinian-owned bookstore in east Jerusalem, detaining the owners and confiscating books about the decades-long conflict . The police claimed the books incited violence.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin will have a memoir out this fall, looking back on a momentous four years in office when she led an all-female governing coalition, presided over her country's joining NATO and enacted legis

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police have raided a long-established Palestinian-owned bookstore in east Jerusalem, detaining the owners and confiscating books about the decades-long conflict . The police said the books incited violence.

TORONTO — Treble Charger musician Greig Nori has filed legal documents in an Ontario court saying that Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley’s memoir has helped proliferate "fabricated" details about their sexual relationship and caused “enormous damage” to

NEW YORK (AP) — The next novel by Ian McEwan will be a post-apocalyptic story, set in part in the 22nd century and centered on a scholar's immersion into a poem written during happier times.

TORONTO — Two jurors withdrew from the Giller Prize in the weeks leading up to the book award's split with its lead sponsor Scotiabank, with one saying his writing community feels alienated by the literary institution that faces ongoing boycotts.

NEW YORK (AP) — In John Irving's next book, the author is returning to St. Cloud's, Maine, and to the orphanage made famous in his acclaimed “The Cider House Rules.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Several large book publishers, a tiny public library and others are suing Idaho officials over a law that forces libraries to keep some books in an adults-only section if community members believe they are “harmful to minors.