How do you cope with a blank page? NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Elizabeth McCracken about her new book, "A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction." ...

According to Ewing, reading and writing were constants throughout her life, shaping not only how she learned but how she ...

Prizes, publishers and government programmes have joined the battle to reverse the decline in young peoples’ love of reading ...

The journalist follows her memoir 'Girls on the Bus' (and its HBO Max adaptation) with a work of fiction that's already in ...

Sophie Kinsella was first diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in 2022, and revealed the diagnosis in 2024. In a ...

As I’m writing this piece, I have read 51 novels that were released in 2025. I chose what to read either based on the description written by the publisher, or because I recognized the author’s name ...

On our Best Fiction of 2025 list, Emma Pattee imagines Portland’s worst Earthquake in her debut novel Tilt ...

Among the many entertaining, delightful, poignant, and treasured new works of fiction and nonfiction that were published this ...

Fox News anchor and New York Times bestselling author Dana Perino announced on Tuesday that her fiction debut, “Purple State, ...

It doesn’t open up the tapestry of human experience — it reads like it was written by a shut-in with Wi-Fi and a thesaurus.

Despite their differences, both authors agree that writing is hard work and provide a mix of inspiration and practical ...

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 ...