Rabih Alameddine won a National Book Award for ‘The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother).’ The 66-year-old thanked his publisher, his drug dealers, and “all gastrointestinal doctors.”

NEW YORK (AP) — National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide on Wednesday night, including Egyptian-Canadian novelist-journalist Omar El Akkad. The writer, who now lives in Oregon, received the non-fiction award for his fierce indictment of the contemporary West, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.” El Akkad told the gathering in New […]