William Giraldi

‘The Bestseller Code’ reveals the well-known secrets of the formulaic novel.

For more than thirty years, Ozick has led the way in affirming the role and responsibility of the critic.

Did an illicit love affair give birth to the Great American Novel?

From the written letter to online commentary, the fine art of literary hate mail endures.

Katie Roiphe’s new book explores the final days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, and other writers at the end.

David Denby dives deep into the English classes of three high schools in his new book “Lit Up.”

A decade since James Frey's memoir was exposed, we're still addicted to fiction packaged as truth.

The frustrating, enlightening, dizzying career of Stanley Fish.

Harper Lee’s juvenilia sprouts a literary industry

The novel's slogan-ready ethics have crowded out literary appreciation

When water, bread, and blood aren’t just water, bread, and blood

Why we need physical books

"Who among us wishes to be smeared always for the recklessness and lunacy of our youth?"

Why writers want fans who last forever

Is it still possible to survive as an artist in America?

That’s what you love about him: his creepiness, his otherness, his charismatic diabolism

What happens when a selfie-addicted celebrity takes on the darkest of American masters