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Last year, writer Akwaeke Emezi became the first non-binary author nominated for the U.K.’s esteemed Women’s Prize…

“Everyone I know is trying to sleep less,” says the narrator of Jenny Offill’s new book Weather. “Insomnia as a…

On the top floor of a Barnes and Noble in New York City, on the release day for Jeanine Cummins’s controversial and…

“Dark” is a word Kimberly King Parsons often uses to describe the short stories collected in her first book, Black…

Giving birth is an apocalypse: one world ends, another becomes. In Samantha Hunt’s Mr. Splitfoot, Cora sits alone in…

Nearly a decade before Samantha Hunt published her haunting novel Mr. Splitfoot and years before The Invention of…

I’m SORRY, I’m sorry, I apologize in advance for the divisive snickering and focusing on another Melania conspiracy…

The women of Carmen Maria Machado’s debut collection Her Body and Other Parties are haunted, invisible, stitched…

Praise for journalist Rich Smith’s article on The Stranger, “Meet John Smelcer, Native American Literature’s ‘Living…

Earlier this week, debut novelist Lani Sarem seemed to accomplish a surprising coup: her book, Handbook for Mortals,…

Paula Hawkins’s new page-turner, Into the Water, is set is in Beckford, a small tourist town in northern England.…

Starting today, I’ll be writing a monthly roundup highlighting newish books that should be on your radar. The first…

Last week the literary world read with slacked jaws Claudio Gatti’s brutish article in the New York Review of Books o…

Today in droll coincidences: nearly 150 years ago, an anonymous author published The Odd Trump, a novel whose…

The brilliant fiction writer Claire Vaye Watkins has written an essay called “On Pandering,” a call to action…

Kelly Link is the author of four short-story collections: Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Pretty…

If you're intrigued by the words "subatomic bisexual orgy," today is your day. The winner of the 2013 Bad Sex in…

The literary world was rocked — ROCKED — this weekend when author Helen Fielding released excerpts from her newest Br…

Next week, the first installment of The Mortal Instruments hits screens. Cassandra Clare, who wrote The Mortal…