Recently, I picked up a book to distract myself from my phone, which was blowing up with social media alerts, election prognostications and sweaty-palmed predictions about who the Dodgers might sign ...

This year’s standout novels offered a mix of brains and fun, with side-helpings of sex, God and rural Australia. Read on for ...

This month is packed with new sci-fi and fantasy book releases, from the sweeping and epic to the intimate and charming.

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

From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has plenty of science fictional treats on offer ...

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

The journey hasn’t been easy. A new kind of disaster fiction is serving as scenario planning for real global crises. Call it the apocalyptic systems thriller.

Cozy, whimsical novels — often featuring magical cats — that have long been popular in Japan and Korea are taking off globally. Fans say they offer comfort during a chaotic time.

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 ...

The Amazons have announced the details of their upcoming new album '21st Century Fiction', set for release on May 09, 2025.

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