(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 ...

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 ...

Young readers are buying more books than ever, but walking straight past the literary fiction shelf. From India to the UK, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Pundits in the literary world have been bemoaning the decline of literary magazines for years. These complaints have only ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Nominees for the 2025 Townsend Prize for Fiction, Georgia’s most prestigious literary award, were announced over the holidays. Presented by the Atlanta Writers Club and the Georgia Writers Museum, the ...