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Some of the Best Bards Were Women

Kirsten Bakis’s Long-Awaited Second Novel Is a Busy Gothic Noir

Is America All-Knowing and All-Powerful? Yes, Thought Saddam Hussein.

Sold Into a Brothel at 15, a Japanese Girl Finds Strength in Words

Confronting What It Means to Be Black in America Through Faith and Art

Cosmically Connected in a Journey From Deep Sea to Deep Space

‘My Beloved Life’ Traces India’s History Through a Father’s Watchful Eye

Brontez Purnell Insists on Phoning Writers He Admires

‘Poor Things,’ the Weird Movie, Was a Weird Novel First

A Love Song to His Roots

How to Speak New York

When a Teen Was Shot Dead, the Tragedy for This Author Was Personal

Four New Books in Translation Test the Bounds of Reality

She’s a Social Media Influencer’s Assistant, and She’s Spiraling

‘We’re Going to Stand Up’: Queer Literature is Booming in Africa

This Novel Is So Bonkers, It Needs Three Narrators

Writer, Mother, Ex-Wife: Leslie Jamison Is a Self in ‘Splinters’

The Filmmaker Ed Zwick Likes Books He Can’t Imagine as Movies

In This Novel, a Second Civil War Reinstates Black Bondage

The Deadly Business of Restricting Immigration