The Witcher books can be enjoyed in chronological or release date order, but there's another alternative that may improve the ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. “A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are ...

Americans are reading for pleasure less. Let’s get back in the habit. By Jancee Dunn The staff at my local library are usually a convivial bunch, but when I asked them about a recent report that fewer ...

Author and critic Lincoln Michel talks about Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai's Nobel win and what it shows about who gets recognized in world literature. The winner of the Nobel Prize in ...

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Readers respond to a guest essay about the continuing vitality of literary fiction. Also: Exxon vs. California; a Supreme ...

Like the common cold, the reading slump and its symptoms will come to us all eventually. The pages don't turn as fast as they used to. The characters don't feel as relatable. The plots don't hit the ...

I’ve been immersing myself in this summer’s crime fiction, which has been a savory mix of stories by established writers like S.A. Cosby’s surefire “King of Ashes” and great newcomers like Zoe B.

Charlie English begins “The CIA Book Club” by describing a 1970s technical manual: a dull cover, as uninviting as anything. A book that practically begs you to put it back on the shelf and move on.