Shanthi Sekaran’s novel, a Global Nation Book Club pick, delves into privilege, motherhood and immigration, legal and not.
Jack Handey offers deep thoughts on how to make your skeleton as scary as possible — all the better to frighten future grave robbers.
Author Marlon James' "A Brief History of Seven Killings" is intricately crafted, with more than 75 characters, and intense. And he's the first Jamaican author to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
A playlist of fiction produced for radio, from a piece of original writing inspired by the Large Hadron Collider to Miranda July reading one of her own short stories.
Jonathan Galassi’s first novel, “Muse,” is about the once-glamorous world of literary publishing. As the publisher of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, it’s a world Galassi knows well.
The holy trinity of Icelandic identity is, according to a popular poem, land, nation and tongue. Remove one, and the others will collapse. So, will the Icelandic nation survive if, as some predict, the Icelandic language dies out?
Sarajevo native Aleksandar Hemon reimagines the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, where one of his relatives was standing on the sidelines holding his new accordion.
Novelist Jennifer Egan thrives on the alternate worlds she can inhabit as a fiction writer. She's also found an alternate way of publishing her work: one tweet — 140 characters — at a time.
“Friends and strangers come up to me on the street,” Alice McDermott tells Kurt Andersen, “and say, ‘Oh, you’re writing another novel. Is this another one about Irish-Americans where ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin to promote the abolitionist cause. So how did Uncle Tom become the byword for a race traitor — a “shuffling, kowtowing, sniveling coward”...