Katherine Kelaidis on Sergey Davydov and why stories of ordinary life are essential in times of political upheaval: “Hatred ...

On a snowy winter afternoon, a coyote was slipping out of the microwild around my home as I tried, without success, to get a good photograph. (I created the concept of the microwild while writing ...

Today, the American Library in Paris announced the winner of their 2026 Book Award, which “celebrates works of literature, ...

Every year, starting in late August, I gather with a new group of high school writers from the Columbus City Schools district ...

Beneath the seventeenth-century Palace of Westminster there was a hidden Medieval undercroft, enduring like a line of erased ...

Women’s House Museums in the American South by Monica Nelson. Eudora Welty Writer 1909-2001 Jackson, Mississippi House Name: ...

A few years ago, a student at the university where I’ve been teaching for the last decade asked me about my working process ...

Hello again! Welcome back to the most fascinating corner of the internet. That’s right, it’s time for another incredible ...

China Miéville has won this year’s Goldsmiths Prize for his novel The Rouse. The Goldsmiths Prize, launched in 2013 “to ...

In addition to a Blue Wave, last night’s midterm may have also brought a Book Wave. In local and state elections all over the ...

Twenty years ago, when I first came to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont, we let our cell phones die. There was ...

In 1345 the English book lover Richard de Bury described the libraries and booksellers of Paris, medieval Europe’s great ...