In short order, Jeanine Cummins' novel American Dirt went from being hailed as "The Grapes of Wrath for our time" to being lambasted for misrepresenting the Mexican American experience it claimed to ...

Oprah Winfrey with touts author Jeanine Cummins’ novel “American Dirt,” which has spawned a debate about cultural appropriation. CBS/Getty Images People keep asking me about George Simon. They want to ...

In what amounts to the Holy Grail for authors, Oprah Winfrey has announced the latest selection for her book club, “American Dirt” by Jeanine Cummins. The novel, about a Mexican woman and her young ...

Jeanine Cummins' now-bestselling novel "American Dirt" was not written for the “faceless brown mass” that Cummins said she so wanted to make visible; that “mass” is not all "faceless" to one another ...

In an early chapter of "American Dirt," the much-hyped novel now at the center of a racial controversy, the protagonist, Lydia, fills her Acapulco, Mexico, bookstore with her favorite literary ...

The much-anticipated release of "American Dirt," a novel about a mother and son who flee Mexico for the United States after their family members are killed by a drug cartel, has prompted a seemingly ...

Of all the weather phenomena, fog may be the richest in literary associations. To be in a fog is to have senses dimmed, to feel as if you're inhabiting a space between worlds. For early 20th century ...

Flatiron Books, the publisher of the contentious migrant novel “American Dirt,” has canceled its book tour with Jeanine Cummins and acknowledged “deep inadequacies” in its rollout of the bestselling ...

At this point, reading Jeanine Cummins’ novel “American Dirt” in a vacuum is just about impossible, unless you don't have a social-media account, subscribe to any sort of news media or watch TV. The ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After strong backlash to author Jeanine Cummins’ controversial new novel “American Dirt,” the book’s publisher canceled Cummins’ remaining tour dates, ...