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 ...

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

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

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

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

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.

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 ...