Rumaan Alam, author of the Read With Jenna pick and National Book Award finalist "Leave the World Behind," stopped by TODAY with Hoda & Jenna Nov. 4 to share a few of his book recommendations for the ...

“There’s a lot of secret money,” writer Rumaan Alam said in a recent Guardian interview. He refers to “these secret layers of money and pedigree informing other people’s lives. And once you’ve ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While parts of Leave the World Behind are eerily reminiscent of the COVID-19 pandemic, Alam actually wrote the book before ...

The novel, which follows a young woman working for an octogenarian billionaire, raises questions about generosity, greed, privilege and race In May, author Rumaan Alam launched his new book at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film, directed by Sam Esmail and executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, follows a couple (Julia Roberts and Ethan ...

In July of this year, a U.S.-based company called CrowdStrike released an update for its widely used cybersecurity software, inadvertently triggering a massive system crash. In the hours that followed ...

Julia Roberts had a timid initial reaction to Leave the World Behind. Alam noted that Esmail had previously worked with Roberts on the psychological television series Homecoming, so "they were good ...

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