A decade ago, I would not have considered it worthwhile to write about the virtue of consuming fiction. Stories and narratives, whether spoken or in print, have been a hallmark of cultures across the ...

The gender gap in the United States also extends to reading. Men are more likely to read nonfiction over fiction, while the opposite is true for women, according to a study conducted by the National ...

Forget our current love of true crime; it was around the turn of the millennium that we were truly sick and twisted. Back ...

Book lovers, listen up: It’s time for the literary world’s most coveted night – the 2024 National Book Awards. Twenty-five finalists, announced Oct. 1, will vie for the prize in fiction, nonfiction, ...

The forces of technology and capitalism that seem to be enveloping the planet are explored, and opposed, in this rumination from novelist and essayist Kingsnorth. Jacob Silverman. Bloomsbury Continuum ...

The narrator of L.A. author Jeff Weiss’s “Waiting for Britney Spears” happened to be in the right place at the right time. It was August 1998, the last Friday of summer school at Venice High, and the ...