An essay from poet Dorothea Lasky on poetry, ghosts, and the shared imagination.

An interview with Yiyun Li about her novel, "Music Against the Night" (the first book in the Nocturne Trilogy).

Visions of the unconscious by Emily Dickinson, Louise Glück, Lucille Clifton, Carl Phillips, and more.

Ten listings from AWP’s Contests & Calls web page

James Elkins shares his strategies for completing a multivolume series of novels that will exceed two thousand pages.

Ryan Teitman talks with married poets Emily Skaja and Marcus Wicker about how each approached a painful loss in their new collections, publishing a week apart.

Jocelyn Jane Cox, Yael Valencia Aldana, Alyson Mosquera Dutemple, and Kelly McMasters discuss what makes for memorable and effective titles across forms and genres.

Bonnie Jo Campbell reflects on a complicated relationship with her mother and the many characters she inspired in her fiction.

We’ve all used the term male gaze to talk about a piece of media with a male at the helm, usually pointing out ways it fell short in representing anyone who wasn’t a dude. And while I’m always happ…

Eriq La Salle has many titles: Actor. Director. Producer. Novelist. But perhaps the one word that encapsulates them all is…storyteller. “As an actor and a director, you are handed a scr…

The following is a conversation between translator Lizzie Davis and author Desirée de Fez, as the two discuss bringing de Fez’s particular brand of body horror to English-reading audiences, a…

Ghostwriters have told The Bookseller that commissions are falling as prospective authors experiment with generative AI, while others are increasingly being asked to work on AI-generated manuscripts.

Strong sales of adult and children’s fiction continued to keep the print book market afloat in the first nine months of 2026 at outlets that report to Circana BookScan.

After spending the last few weeks quietly watching his reputation be torn apart, Quebec-based author Thélyson Orélien is speaking out and addressing the allegations that he used artificial intelligenc...

“My life’s purpose is to tell difficult stories involving difficult people.” —Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of The Spirits

Hundreds of digitized audio recordings from decades of literary events at the Unterberg Poetry Center make iconic readings accessible online.

“Screenplays and novels work on very different parts of my brain.” “Horror and thriller films and books are tools for creating radical empathy, they allow us to practice the forgiveness that is almost...

BESTSELLING Irish author Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be supplied in the UK by her publisher after UK anti-terror legislation left it unable to pass on earnings from sales of her work

The artist has draped and wrapped herself in unsewn and archival Chanel fabrics.

Samantha Walton bought the Lillstreet Art Center at the end of September. She is married to Lukas Walton, the billionaire grandson of the founder of Walmart.

Taylor broke barriers as a Black world-champion cyclist in the late nineteenth century. Frederick Noland's graphic novel tells the story of the man whose local legacy includes a trail and a cycling cl...

Chopin Theatre brings Stuart Dybek's short story to the stage, with actor Yasen Peyankov reading it aloud while Jana Pavlovska plays a grand piano.

Deesha Philyaw’s debut novel is a high-stakes tale of morality, shame, and vulnerability.

A poet writes from the edge of death.

John Field and Adelaide Percheron, the protagonists in my new book, were born in the eighteenth century. Was I writing a historical novel?

On the shifting rules of writing bodies and desire

a certain kind of person writes in all lowercase now. why?

For years Phillip Tennent lived at the edge of the sea, where artefacts were washed up every day. Scavengers, professional and otherwise, came and went. Turnover was higher than you’d expect given …

There are epiphanies. Posts of stern nonfictions. There arise in us strong love affairs with feedback. The id a remarkable botulism. And what about shuttered domestic spirits. A proclivity for bask…

There is a less binary way of thinking about the real and the imaginary and we slip into it (perhaps without knowing) as...

Each day, I write the poem of my body. The more I’m able to befriend movement as a means to learn what knowledge lives within, the more interesting my experience becomes. What poem might my body wr…

Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. …

Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. …

Last weekend I had a little stagefright before I was set to appear on a panel about authorship and AI for an event called Whose Truth? Writers and Readers Forum presented by the Authors Guild. I ha…

Bogs are big right now. Fashion designers are dipping couture in peat; memes on Instagram offer help choosing your bog witch name. Internationally bestselling authors are (figuratively) mining wetl…

The wildness in J.H. Prynne is not something that critics noticed, the obligation to let rip, take himself by surprise,...

John Clare’s tombstone in Helpston declares that ‘A poet is born not made,’ echoing sentiments expressed during...

In the moments following the fall of regimes, societies tend to look for immediate signs indicating the beginning of

Clinton Steeds   CC Like Vines Know to Climb Just west of Lake Charles, false dawn glows so bright  it all-but swallows the glare of Interstate lights. I speed through miles of chemical refineries,...

Claire-Louise Bennett’s novels have found a new language to evoke the often circular, abstracted nature of human consciousness.

To imagine you cracking crayons in your small, enthusiastic grip, or blue fireworks bursting beneath your rain boots is to forget the wetness running down my leg on the day the app says 100 days till ...

Today’s poem is Holes by Eileen Myles, with special guest Alynda Segarra of Hurray for the Riff Raff.

A hybrid memoir braids a coming-of-age story alongside Joan Vollmer’s, asking what it costs to reach for a creative life.

It's the girl with the bowl cut & red bandana                chasing hope in the truck's exhaust fumes losing herself around the corner.

Ms. Rooney and her publisher said that she could no longer receive royalties from British sales because she pledged to donate book revenues to Palestine Action, which is banned in Britain.

Chimes at Midnight This must happen to anyone who lives a long time, looking back across the years and decades to the days when we were young and the world stretched out before us like an endless h…

Our review of Sonora Jha's novel, "Foreign."