Today I want to talk about the literary canon, the texts that have been judged to be worthwhile and enduring and therefore deserving of special status in our culture. I’m also going to talk about the ...

In contemporary publishing, novels fixated on the past rather than the present have garnered the most attention and prestige. The 68th National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street, 2017. On Friday, ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. “I just think we have to be honest about where we are culturally,” the acclaimed author tells PEOPLE Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books ...

NMAI copy 39088019860378 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. "In its consideration of American Indian literature as a rich and exciting body of work, The Voice in the Margin invites us ...

At a party in the early morning of Nov. 20, 1960, a man stabbed his wife with a penknife: once in the stomach and once in the back, nearly killing her. When another partygoer attempted to revive her ...

Why the latest literary trend favors short, punchy prose over epics. Novelists Anika Jade Levy and Jenny Offill weigh in.

Too often, we forget that fights about what we shouldn’t read are also battles over what we should read. And that every time someone attempts to ban Toni Morrison or Ta-Nehisi Coates, they’re also ...