Author Khalen Hosseini. Photo by Brian Sokol/UNHCR. Gov. Tim Walz and his DFL colleagues in the state Legislature have touted a law passed in 2024 that “banned book bans.” But school districts in ...

At what point does a genuine villain become a Grand Guignol trope? From World War II onward, Nazis were that convenient bad guy whenever writers of fiction needed to shock us with senseless and ...

A Wake County school committee has rejected a parent’s request to remove the book “The Kite Runner” from the high school English curriculum. “The Kite Runner” is an award-winning but frequently ...

The Kite Runner, the debut novel by Afghani-born physician and author Khaled Hosseini, has been on best-seller and book club lists for nearly a year. Writer Isabel Allende says the book -- about a ...

Bestselling author Khaled Hosseini took to social media on Tuesday to celebrate his 21-year-old daughter for coming out as transgender. In a touching Instagram post, the "Kite Runner" and "A Thousand ...

WASHINGTON, United States, February 16 (UNHCR) - Khaled Hosseini was last year named a Goodwill Envoy to the UNHCR office in the United States. The Afghan former refugee's first novel, The Kite Runner ...