We've got you covered with our edit of this year's must-reads Our picks are a proper treat—a monstrous game of tit-for-tat ...

Karen Skinazi, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Literature and Culture and the director of Liberal Arts at the University of ...

Percival Everett’s novel, James, is the best I’ve read in years, and I almost didn’t read it because its first 5 pages are printed ...

Elaine Garvey, who has had stories published in 'Stinging Fly' and 'Winter Papers', is especially good at dialogue, with a ...

Horror is having a moment. Once confined largely to Halloween, or at least to October, “spooky season” has evolved into a monthslong ...

Do you have to believe in God to join a religious order?” asks the narrator of Charlotte Wood’s “Stone Yard Devotional.” The question would seem to be rhetorical, since the unnamed, middle-aged ...

Hebden Bridge author Rozie Kelly publishes her debut novel in April, a year after she was announced winner of the NorthBound ...

The author of “If We Were Villains” recommends novels that will make you shiver with delight one moment and recoil in horror ...

This Valentine’s Day, discover how authors throughout time talk honestly about love, refusing to shy away from their flaws ...

A book that uses literary post-structuralism as its main theme while playfully subverting the limitations of that movement does not immediately sound like a recipe for the most thrilling fiction of ...

“All of a sudden, he has a gun in his hands.” So Jeanne, the narrator of Sarah Jollien-Fardel’s novel My Favourite, begins her story. A paragraph later, the moment and gun have been left behind, the ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with author Charlotte Wood about Stone Yard Devotional, in which the narrator retreats to a convent ...