Inside first-time writer-director Cord Jefferson's 'American Fiction,' the starry, satirical festival darling that's generating serious awards buzz.

Q&A with English and creative writing professor Alexander Chee, guest editor of the ‘Best American Essays of 2022’ Chee expands on the power of the essay, writing in the time book bans and his daily ...

Alongside prepping to shoot his next feature, American Nails, filmmaker Abel Ferrara is working on a book about his time in the industry ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023. There’s lots of ways to participate: Read with us, join our community space, attend an event, sign up for ...

There’s no known date for when the highly anticipated book by Benedict XVI’s longtime personal secretary will be published in English — and at least one American publisher has already passed.

Even if it seems to many abroad that Americans are not so interested in foreign literature, book fairs abroad are still finding ways to highlight American books.

There was a time when the least popular people in English soccer were the American billionaires and MBAs who crossed the Atlantic to buy up the country’s oldest clubs. Often seen as clueless ...

I'm an American visiting the UK and I won't use this common English word because I'd get cancelled back home This woman did not even dare to say the word on camera for fear of backlash ...

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Language is perhaps our most powerful tool. It has been improved, imposed and modified widely over time. From James Baldwin, to the first settlers in the Plymouth Colony, to beat poets, to hip-hop ...

This starts with you because, well, who else? As in the new book “Half American” by Matthew F. Delmont, there’ll be no more doing things halfway.

Her essay, The Provincetown Breakthrough, is featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 Come with your queries and wonderings—we’ll be taking your questions via the livestream ...