Freida McFadden sold six million print copies in a single year, outsold the Prix Goncourt winner twelve times over, and had a film gross $400 million. Yet no major literary publication reviews her, no ...

Don't get me wrong. I love a sugar-coated page turner as much as anyone. But sometimes I want a novel that will genuinely ...

(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) This post is by way of a reply to Arthur Krystal’s “Easy Writers,” a thoroughly thought-provoking piece about the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There's nothing quite like the satisfying feeling of making it through a new book that's so enticing that you can't put it down. So many ...

JOYCE Saricks, in her wonderful primer for librarians, Reader’s Advisory Service in the Public Library, argues that the ...

I've dabbled in literary fiction from my time in school and initially getting back into reading, but its become a genre that I've grown to love. Literary fiction (LitFic) is an introspective and, ...

From a death obsessed young woman to the wives of convicted killers, March’s new releases are all about the interior worlds of women. Contributor. Forbes contributors publish independent expert ...

Rushdie in New York. Ghosh in Brooklyn. Lahiri in Rome. Desai between continents. Almost every Indian English novelist the world celebrates lives outside India. The pattern is not coincidental. It is ...

Tradwife fiction is this year’s most talked-about literary genre - THE READING LIST: Tradwife influencers are lightning rods ...

Always with a glass-half-full view of the world, Rebecca Solnit is soon appearing at this year’s Hay Festival (Trent Davis Bailey) “You become prolific by being the sort of nerdy person who stays home ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Books are displayed at the home of the celebrated late ...

English teachers have long claimed reading books makes you a better person, maybe because their livelihoods have long depended on it. Now they've got proof, courtesy of the science wing. But not just ...