Brit Bennett’s novel, The Vanishing Half, has garnered attention from bookworms and non-bookworms alike. While its exploration of themes of family, love and grief are praiseworthy, it also ...

NEW YORK — Two of the summer’s most talked about novels, Brit Bennett’s “The Vanishing Half” and Megha Majumdar’s “A Burning,” are on the National Book Awards fiction longlist. Judges also nominated ...