While the love story in Allegra Goodman's latest novel can seem formulaic, she captures the allure of video gaming and the tension between real-world art and literature and the fantasy worlds online.

Can Emily Dickinson compete with World of Warcraft? That’s among the intriguing questions raised by Allegra Goodman in “The Chalk Artist,” featuring a 23-year-old teacher trying to win the ...

Sam Sacks reviews “The Chalk Artist” by Allegra Goodman, “The Accomplished Guest” by Ann Beattie and “Modern Gods” by Nick Laird.

In Allegra Goodman’s sixth novel, people shift between the daily world and a magical realm that is both evanescent and enduring. “The Chalk Artist’’ follows characters from passion to ...

The novel follows a white working-class girl from age 7 through her late teens, navigating a world tightly circumscribed by class and culture.

In a page-turner, things must by necessity go from bad to worse to unthinkable—and swiftly. The pages of Allegra Goodman’s historical novel, “Isola,” turn and turn beneath the readers ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The City of El Paso’s Museums and Cultural Affairs Department (MCAD) is now accepting applications for the 18th annual Chalk the Block event.

Allegra Goodman's best-selling new novel, Sam, is a portrait of a girl who loves to climb and doesn't like to be told to plan for her future. Below, Goodman, the author of Intuition and ...

On The Writer’s Voice podcast, Allegra Goodman reads “Ambrose,” her story from the September 30, 2024, issue of The New Yorker.

While the love story in Allegra Goodman's latest novel can seem formulaic, she captures the allure of video gaming and the tension between real-world art and literature and the fantasy worlds online.