Work of fiction: How Jeffrey Wright & Co. are re-writing the book on Black stereotypes in American Fiction. Inside first-time writer-director Cord Jefferson's starry, satirical festival darling ...

Professor of English and creative writing Alexander Chee was this year’s guest editor of “The Best American Essays 2022,” a part of ‘The Best American Series’ — an annual publication started in 1915 ...

The book made Gunther enough money that he could quit his day job as a reporter and devote himself, as he’d always wanted, to writing books, novels as well as nonfiction.

NEW YORK (AP) — Kerry Kennedy is working on a book about her late mother, Ethel Kennedy. “Ethel: Faith, Hope, Family, and an Extraordinary American Life” is scheduled to come out in the fall ...

By way of explaining the metaphor that serves as the title of his latest book, “The Black Box,” the Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. transcribes a conversation he had with his son-in-law ...

From James Baldwin, to the first settlers in the Plymouth Colony, to beat poets, to hip-hop artists, American English in all its forms has become a global, and imperial language. "Words are never ...