Cross-stitch watercolor by Demetris Papadimitropoulos When Aly changed hir name, hir mother heard more than a new set of ...

Extra, extra. You’ve seen the headlines. Men—particularly straight men—have stopped reading fiction. This year saw the rise ...

He wanted to talk again, suddenly.” The words cut sharply into the jumble of to-do lists, fantasies, snippets of possible ...

Last week the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which oversees the districts of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and ...

Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in all five categories—Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated ...

Tonight, at a ceremony in New York City, Kirkus Reviews announced the winners of the 13th annual Kirkus Prize, which awards $50,000 to “books of exceptional merit” in three categories: ...

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. The novel has always been obsessed with technology ...

Partita, by Barbara Kingsolver, is available now from Harper, so we asked her a few questions about her writing life. * What ...

For years, mainstream media have parroted the language of their own governments, and that of lsrael, with little critical ...

While the story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s is well known by all Americans, the decades preceding it ...

I was no virgin when I met my husband, and he knew it. We have been monogamous, but I wouldn’t call myself chaste. (I can ...

In my forthcoming debut novel, the Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford, nearly every terrible thing that can happen ...