Amal El-Mohtar is the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist. She is a Hugo Award-winning writer and the ...

Towles chalked it up to men being “out of the habit” of reading fiction, explaining, “We know statistically that men are less ...

And first, a closer look at NYRB editorial director Edwin Frank’s new ‘Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century ...

On a White Night in 2019, prima ballerina Natalia Leonova returns to St Petersburg two years after a devastating accident ...

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The best in Aussie fiction is on display in Robbie Arnott’s latest historical novel. Thirty-seven-year-old twins Iris and ...

One of the first writers to insist on fiction as an art was Henry James, who analyzed the formal features of the novel in the prefaces he wrote for the multivolume New York Edition of his work ...

Percival Everett's “James” has received yet another literary nomination. Everett's reworking of Mark Twain's “The Adventures ...

In this story, Jia seeks to express that within the cyclical nature of history, even in times of war and chaos like the ...