Amenhotep III ruled a golden age of Egyptian gods and glory. But his son, Akhenaten, betrayed it all. This is the story of a religious revolution that plunged Egypt into chaos—the banning of the old ...

Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” won in fiction, while Omar El Akkad’s reckoning with Gaza took the nonfiction prize. By Elizabeth A. Harris Omar El Akkad ...