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Butcher’s Crossing Betrays the Brilliant Novel That Inspired It

The author, teacher, and scholar John Williams wrote four novels during his career, but he habitually refused to claim credit for the first, written while he was in his twenties and serving in the …

Dua Lipa's Latest Book Club Rec Is 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel García Márquez: 'It's Irresistible'

Dua Lipa's October book club selection is 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel García Márquez. Monthly content for the book club, which Lipa started in June 2023, is published on her editorial platform Service95.

In 'The Fraud,' Zadie Smith seeks to 'do absolute justice to the truth'

The historical fiction novel centers on a real-life Victorian Era trial. Smith says she doesn't look back on the past with a sense of superiority: In her view, human life is "a continued struggle."

Anne Enright Stays Inside the Work

What time of day do you write (and why)? Any time of day. All the time. Because I have to. Because I like it. How do you tackle writers block? ‘Tackle’ and ‘block’ are very mechanical words: they c…

Louise Erdrich's disquieting new novel will keep you on your toes

Set in a haunted Minneapolis bookshop over the course of one very momentous year, The Sentence is an ambitious novel, featuring a sinister ghost, a country in tumult and Erdrich's own shifting style.

28 new books out today!

September is slowly turning its pages, and, if you’d like do the same, you’re in for luck. Today, you’ll find a veritable cornucopia of exciting new books to consider, including n…

Lauren Groff has a go bag and says so should you

Acclaimed author Lauren Groff's new novel, The Vaster Wilds, is about a young girl on the run during Colonial times. But the writer is really questioning — what will it take to survive today?

25 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

It may not be technically fall just yet, but the weather is beginning to cool (at least here in the Northeast), the days are getting shorter, and Pumpkin Spice Lattes are back on the menu—so it&#82…

10 Great Sci-Fi Books That Made For Terrible Movies

These sci-fi book-to-film adaptations didn't work.

6 brilliant authors who only wrote one novel

Some authors give their all to one project. Here are six amazing authors who only published one full-length book.

The Pull of the Stars

In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse …

Best Historical Fiction: Top 5 Novels Most Recommended By Experts

The best historical fiction should be entertaining and insightful, providing a so-called “slice of life” view of an era, event, or individual.

Nine Novellas For Our Current Age of Distraction

I’ve always loved the novella, which Henry James called “the beautiful and blessed nouvelle” and which Joyce Carol Oats deemed “the most difficult, at least for me” of “all the literary prose forms…

1918 Flu Inspired Donoghue's 'Pull Of The Stars' — A Disquieting Pandemic Novel

Set in a Dublin maternity ward in 1918, the novel captures a city devastated by a pandemic. By diving into the terrors of the past, Emma Donoghue presciently anticipates the miseries of our present.

Hernan Diaz: “I Wouldn’t Be the Person I am Without Borges.”

When his first novel, In the Distance, was published, Hernán Diaz described the sense of “foreignness” he gained from his formative years. He was born in Argentina; his family moved to Stockholm wh…