In The Rest of Our Lives, the narrator drops his daughter off to college — then keeps on driving, leaving his marriage behind ...

From "James" to "Demon Copperhead," literary retellings are having a moment. Xiaolu Guo joins the ranks with her latest ...

Author Matt Greene on his new dystopian novel 'The Definitions' about life after a virus wipes people's memories.

The year, 1967, the place, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and its central narrative came from the scrawlings of a 16-year-old named Susan ...

Syed Saleem is one of the compelling humanist voices in contemporary Telugu literature. He occupies a distinctive space as a writer who blends lived experience, social awareness, and artistic empathy ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. In the 1970s, before Morrison was world-famous for her fiction, she worked at Random ...

1 School of Literature, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China 2 College of Marine Science and Engineering, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China Crab is a traditional Chinese culinary ...

How often do we stop to think about the meaning of life? If you’re like me, probably not much. Even though I may feel a vague sense of anxiety around how my life is unfolding and the inevitability of ...

The jury for JCB Prize for Literature 2024 included: author-translator Jerry Pinto (Chair), art historian-curator Deepthi Sashidharan, scholar-writer-translator Tridip Suhrud, filmmaker-writer Shaunak ...

Writer Upamanyu Chatterjee on Saturday won the JCB Prize for Literature for his book "Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life". Chatterjee's book, published by Speaking Tiger, follows the story of a ...