For years, Roth couldn’t get beyond the premise for his novel “American Pastoral.” Then he stumbled on a copy of “Shtetl in ...

Garth Greenwell’s new novel unfolds over the nearly two weeks of his hospitalization. It had me in its grip from start to ...

The actor plays a celebrated novelist in an ambitious if discursive drama by Pulitzer winner Ayad Akhtar about creativity and artificial intelligence.

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Veteran journalist Justice Malala revisits the shocking assassination of the charismatic ANC leader in a bid to understand ...

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The National Book Foundation has awarded Barbara Kingsolver a medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (DCAL), which has previously been given to Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Joan ...

The third annual three-day WIT Literary Festival kicks off at 1 p.m. Sept. 27, at Shakespeare & Company, with a wide-ranging ...

In Paradise Lost, Milton describes Satan’s army of fallen angels as engaging in swarm behaviors: “As bees / In spring-time,” ...

On Friday, the National Book Foundation announced that Kingsolver was the 37th winner of its medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (DCAL), which has previously been given to Toni ...

From Jacqueline Novak to Jerrod Carmichael, millennial comedians are finding inspiration in their literary counterparts. Who gets the last laugh?