Earlier this year, my YouTube feed began filling up with provocative videos dressed up to sound authoritative but somehow off ...

"Yellowface's" less-than-flattering image of writers and the publishing industry intrigued me. As a hopeful future author ...

For the past several years, writers and pundits have been wringing their hands over how few men are supposedly writing and ...

One way that I have found to both remember and honor my mother’s memory, and stay connected, deeply, to her, is through an ...

So, in the end, it’s just been about Belly getting that beach house all along, right? I kid, partially. After seasons of ...

This week’s books range from fiction set in Japan’s Meiji era and some rock’n’roll fiction to Elizabeth Gilbert’s revealing ...

Being the grandson of the legendary Kumar Gandharva, Bhuvanesh Komkali has been exposed to the poetry of Sant Kabir from an ...

In the future, Britain is partly submerged by rising seas – but what do people remember of the past? NPR's Scott Simon talks to British author Ian McEwan about his new novel, "What We Can Know." ...

Where did I find affirmation in a book so enamored of the abyss? (Images of dark, empty spaces, reservoirs of nonbeing, fill the text: “cavern,” “breach,” “void,” “wound.”) Nor am I alone: generations ...

Patricia Lockwood’s life and art are so closely linked that it’s appropriate for a cat meowing in the background during a phone interview from her Savannah, Ga., home to make it into this story. That ...

First up is a book that’s actually already available on bookstore shelves: Peter Orner’s novel “The Gossip Columnist’s ...

A new edition of ‘Lolita,’ including an introduction by novelist Claire Messud, examines the book’s place in modern times ...