A look at the five fiction and five nonfiction books nominated for a 2011 National Book Award. The fiction award went to Jesmyn Ward, author of “Salvage the Bones,” while the nonfiction award went to Stephen Greenblatt for his book “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.”
FICTION: "The Tiger's Wife: A Novel" by Tea Obreht. After her beloved grandfather dies, a young Balkan doctor explores his past and uncovers unknown, even magical elements, of his life and hers.
Johnathon Carrington graduated Friday as the valedictorian of his neighborhood school, Dunbar High, and is headed to Georgetown University. But Carrington, 17, is nervous, and so are...
With the Confederations Cup opening this week and the World Cup one year away, all eyes are on Brazil, where soccer is arguably played with more passion and art than anywhere else....
A decades-old backyard barbecue in Northeast Washington draws hundreds in honor of dads everywhere. “It’s off-the-chain fun,” says Butch McNair, who has worked one...
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