Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.
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Life took a sudden, terrible turn when the prolific novelist and screenwriter suffered catastrophic spine damage in late 2022. In an email interview, he described how...
A new ecosystem of publishers, bookstores, literary magazines and festivals is promoting African writers and changing the stories told about the region.
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A seemingly unremarkable old woman unspools a life story that had her hobnobbing with New York bohemians in Norton’s fifth novel. Despite coming up in comedy,...
Nearly six years after becoming a literary heavyweight with “Read with Jenna,” she’s starting her own publishing venture with Penguin Random House.
The counting and classifying of story lines is a venerable literary pastime, one that has occasionally proved so strenuous and competitive that it could pass among...
He wasn’t just prolific, publishing 32 books. His output also showed an unusual range that included memoirs and forays into historical fiction and even poetry.
It’s easy to get sentimental about the joy children’s books bring to kids. But picture books must also be read by adults, who, depending on the...