Our partner podcast Novel Dialogue invites a novelist and a literary critic to talk about novels from every angle: how we read them, write them, publish them, and remember them. This season’s... Read more »
This week, The New Yorker is announcing the longlists for the 2024 National Book Awards, beginning with Young People’s Literature. Check back at 2 P.M. for the Translated Literature list, and Thursday... Read more »
Body horror is a genre that features the mutilation or transformation of the human body. Always graphic and usually grotesque, its trademark terrors range from dismemberment to cannibalism, which some authors use... Read more »
Ismail Kadare, 88, dies; His novels brought Albania’s plight to the world Jul 01 2024 Ismail Kadare, the Albanian novelist and poet who single-handedly wrote his isolated Balkan homeland onto the map... Read more »
Ismail Kadare, 88, dies; His novels brought Albania’s plight to the world Jul 01 2024 Ismail Kadare, the Albanian novelist and poet who single-handedly wrote his isolated Balkan homeland onto the map... Read more »
Six âbold and playfulâ novels, including The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley and Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly, have been shortlisted for the Waterstones debut fiction prize. Now in... Read more »
After several uncertain weeks this fall, my cat died. Her little life was bracketed by two crises that she was not aware of. I adopted her—a sleek, shy gray adolescent—at the beginning... Read more »
CJ Sansom, the bestselling author of Dissolution, Winter in Madrid and Dominion has died aged 71, having been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare cancer that affects bone marrow, in 2012. His... Read more »
What do we mean when we say a novel is a “sad girl novel”? I could list a dozen popular novels published over the last few years that have had this term... Read more »