George Plimpton is credited with the “Small Ball Theory,” which he expounded upon in a 1992 essay for the New York Times.

New Takes on the classics. Throughout our centennial year, we’re revisiting notable works from the archive. Sign up to receive them directly in your inbox. In 1972, on “The Tonight Show,” Johnny ...

Author Jason Zengerle on the rightwing media kingpin’s potential presidential ambitions and more: “I don’t think he just wants to be a podcaster.” ...

By George Saunders. Random House; 192 pages; $28. Bloomsbury; £18.99. W hat is fiction for? In an idealistic view, it lets ...

T here is no shortage of books on the period surrounding America’s civil war. Canonical classics include “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, ...

There was no fat lady singing on Saturday night, Jan. 31, at the Detroit Opera House. But things were certainly phat.

My colleague Katy Waldman recently wrote an appreciation of Mary McCarthy’s “One Touch of Nature,” an essay from 1970 on the decline of landscape in fiction. Melville’s oceans and Fenimore Cooper’s ...

Last fall, George Saunders was awarded the National Book Foundation’s medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In the speech introducing him, alongside a glowing rundown of his ...

The Bardo is a Tibetan Buddhist idea of a suspended state between life and death. Saunders explored the concept in his 2017 ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with author George Saunders on his latest novel Vigil, and why he finds himself revisiting death in his work.

Your complete guide to The Winds of Winter, the next book in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...