Have you ever found yourself in a bookstore, staring at the rows of classics, wondering which ones are truly worth your time?

Even an Austen contemporary like Scottish novelist Walter Scott, a self-proclaimed fan, damned her with faint praise. He ...

If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again.

These picks—from authors including Imani Perry, Omar El Akkad, Sarah Wynn-Williams, and more—made an impression on our ...

The last two decades have transformed the ecology of literary culture worldwide, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in the geographically dispersed world of Urdu letters. Social media, with ...

So: what were the best works of science fiction published this year? I will start with two new books that aren’t actually new, but have only just been published in English. First up is Ice by Jacek ...

Emily H. Wilson is wild for this sci-fi novel: I’ve not heard our sci-fi columnist recommend a book so wholeheartedly in all the time she’s written for us. It follows Mawukana na-Vdnaze, a deep-space ...

Arch Campbell and Pat Collins are two of DC’s more prominent retired TV news figures, and though they were colleagues at NBC4, these days they’re embroiled in a (friendly) literary rivalry: They’re ...

Back at the end of the last century, I and many other readers around the world were bowled over by “The Voyage of the Narwhal” (1998), Andrea Barrett’s fictional account of a band of American ...