“In fiction, you’re writing what you’re scared to know about yourself.”

Many men rape; many men giggle encouragingly, or shrug indifferently, when their friends rape. Many men rape, and few seem to think that it’s a very big deal

Stories of apathy, dissociation and the numbing pull of television

Describing A Certain Lucas as a novel is characteristic of the rebelliousness that made Julio Cortázar such a singular writer. It would be more accurate

It’s rare to see an author having as much fun as Madeline Cash seems to have had writing her zany debut novel, Lost Lambs. It’s difficult to resist the

Comedy Writer and Novelist!

Kid discovers supernatural forces; government finds kid; chase ensues. It used to be so simple — until 'Midnight Special' came along.

Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.

Julia Lloyd George interviews Rebecca Kelliher about her new book “Just Pills: The Extraordinary Story of a Revolution in Abortion Care.”

If you squint, the dystopian future of Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel looks a lot like our present reality. The rules of this meticulously drawn world are

It’s a literature of dimming stars, smoggy drives through flammable chaparral, frequent benders, prostitutes. Flash periods of productivity where somebody bangs out a script in a week. There’s at leas...

Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.

The most impressive fact about the Spanish film-maker Albert Serra’s fragmented memoir, A Toast to St Martirià, is that its central essay came from a speech that was “entirely improvised”, according t...

The chaos agents who drive Christopher Bollen’s latest thriller belong to two of the most easily overlooked demographics: an old woman and a child. The

Resurrection stories typically aren’t a hard sell; readers are seduced by the promise of miracles and by the possibility that they too can rise again to