John Andrew Jackson spent a night at Harriet Beecher Stowe’s home as he fled north. Why do so few traces of his visit remain?

Why does fiction do such a bad job of portraying fat characters?

If a computer can write like a person, what does that say about the nature of our own creativity?

He takes his place with Melville, Faulkner, and Twain in the pantheon.

In her journalism, Malcolm offered devastating portraits of artists, analysts, and frauds. She dreaded receiving the same treatment.

Recent “sensitivity” edits to the author’s beloved yet unabashedly disagreeable novels are all about maintaining a lucrative intellectual property. But what difference can a few changed words really make?

Stanislav Aseyev was abducted by Russian security forces in 2017. The next nearly three years were literally torture. But since February, he’s seen even worse.

In the last year, works by more than 1,200 authors were banned, affecting nearly four million students.

Years after scandal rocked the committee, there’s a new commitment to broadening the prize’s horizons. But “literary merit,” Olsson insists, remains “the absolute and only criterion.”

The Netflix show with Sandra Oh captures an existential crisis.

In her formally experimental series of autobiographies, Deborah Levy takes a rollicking, intimate journey through the challenges of motherhood and writing.

Ernest Hemingway’s one enduring character? Ernest Hemingway.

They’ve always overcharged for books. Now they’re demanding obscene costs for e-books.

In “Transcendent Kingdom,” a young Black woman refuses to be defined by other people’s narratives.

A celebrated chronicler of human suffering, John Steinbeck could not abide other people.

A post-9/11 veteran novelist explores a post-Vietnam literary soiree gone bad, and finds timeless lessons about a contentious and still-evolving genre.

Her most criticized book, “The Romance of American Communism,” has become a modern classic.

In a subtle new work of autofiction, Ben Lerner takes on Trumpism.

The alt-right and other fanatics of the ancient civilization are distorting history. Sparta can teach us how to rethink liberal democracy.

A debut novel explores self-care through the mind of a caregiver.