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 ...

A parent filed a book challenge to have “The Kite Runner” removed from Wake County high schools. A Wake County school committee has rejected a parent’s request to remove the book “The Kite Runner” ...

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 ...

Hosseini's stunning debut novel starts as an eloquent Afghan version of the American immigrant experience in the late 20th century, but betrayal and redemption come to the forefront when the narrator, ...

Amir Arison stars as a guilt-ridden Afghan refugee brooding over a childhood friendship in a stiff adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel. By Maya Phillips After nine seasons on the NBC ...

My main goal in reading Khaled Hosseini's new book, "And the Mountains Echoed," was to avoid crying. I failed within the first 20 pages. And by the last page, I was bawling. So, yes, much like ...

Acclaimed writer Khaled Hosseini has said he has “never been prouder” of his daughter, after she came out as transgender. Author Khaled Hosseini. (Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group File) The ...

"And the Mountains Echoed" by Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead Books, $28.95 My main goal in reading Khaled Hosseini's new book, "And the Mountains Echoed," was to avoid crying. I failed within the first 20 ...

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 ...