“How Civil Wars Start” by Barbara F. Walter, one of the most-discussed titles of the moment, warns that the signs typically heralding such conflicts are now evident at home. “Divided We Fall” by David French, published weeks before the 2020

Ellen Airgood’s first novel was a Michigan Notable Book in 2011, but making the list again this year was no less thrilling for her. “I don’t take it for granted,” says the self-taught writer who lives in the Upper Peninsula.

Joan Didion has died at the age of 87, her publisher has confirmed. The legendary essayist, novelist and screenwriter — who had long been revered as one of America’s pre-eminent writers — passed away at her Manhattan home Thursday morning. “We

Scott Simon speaks to Lucy Yu, owner of a new bookstore in New York City that highlights Asian American literature and works by immigrant authors.

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In 2015, a writer named Dawn Dorland donated a kidney to an anonymous donor. She should have received accolades. Instead, another writer named Sonya Larson wrote a short story about it, titled The Kindest. Not a story depicting Dorland as

Photo: Max McCoy/Kansas Reflector We’ve been buried by a blizzard of news lately. So much has happened ­­­­— special anti-mandate legislative session, the U.S. Supreme Court poised to reverse Roe v. Wade, omicron variant popping up across the United States —

A miscarriage of justice that had landed a Black man in jail for a crime he hadn’t committed came to light earlier this week when Anthony Broadwater, the man convicted of raping and assaulting American writer Alice Sebold, was exonerated

As a second pandemic holiday season rolls in, even the cheeriest folks are fraying a little around the edges. This year, give them effortless presents that will make their lives gentler, simpler, and sweeter. And since you could probably also

HARSH TIMES by Mario Vargas Llosa | Translated by Adrian Nathan West“In Latin America,” wrote the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa in 1984, “a writer is not just a writer. Due to the nature of our problems, to a very