Fiercely funny tales from a literary mafia don - The Canadian author gets to show her funny side — and settle scores with ...

So I am a word guy. I love words and language. The new book by Stefan Fatsis, “Unabridged - the Thrill (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary,” is exactly my kind of book. When the author was a boy he ...

Paul Burch assigned himself a difficult and audacious writing task: creating a fictional account of the life of country music legend Jimmie Rodgers through a multitude of voices, including Rodgers' ...

Every year since 2014, I’ve set aside a couple of months to sit down with what amounts to a long shelf of poetry published in the past 12 months. My goal is to review 31 single-author volumes, one for ...

Yang Shuang-zi’s “Taiwan Travelogue,” a National Book Award winner, is a nesting-doll narrative about colonial power in its many forms. By Shahnaz Habib Shahnaz Habib is the author of “Airplane Mode: ...

This post was updated Aug. 31 at 7:59 p.m. Warning: Spoilers for R.F. Kuang’s “Katabasis” ahead. “Katabasis” is an intriguing book for academics but possibly a challenging journey for casual readers.