In a world of dwindling reviews, the author Lydia Davis’s new work charts a more serendipitous path to reading.

David Brooks, winner of the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry, recalls his friendship with AD Hope and recounts ...

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No one wields a well-turned insult like a professional writer. As there’s nothing more fun than watching purveyors of high ...

Once known as the poet laureate of Twitter, the novelist speaks about writing, reading and her plans for a website.

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I n 1970, a New York publishing company put out a debut novel by an editor and former teacher from Ohio. The press, then known as Holt, Rinehart and Winston, had taken a chance on the book, which had ...

Roy’s darkly funny portrait of her mother is unflinching, yet remarkably affectionate: Mary Roy is now shrewd entrepreneur, ...

Pynchon returns with Depression-era noir, featuring private eye Hicks McTaggart navigating a world of swing bands, spies and surreal danger. It is a predictably wild, genre-mashing ride from one of ...

Almost 17, already trying to stitch together what I was hearing on the radio and what I was reading in English class, I was electrified. Greil Marcus was showing me that the jukebox and the bookshelf ...