The strangely short history of a publishing niche. Ad Policy The smallest book in the world is on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 1961. (Photo by Keystone / Getty Images) As an English professor, ...

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A s a fannish undergraduate in the late 1990s, I took a creative-writing workshop thinking I might write science fiction. I was quickly disabused of that notion. “I don’t do science fiction, and I don ...

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A few years ago, Phoebe Evans – who is in her late 20s – started reading novels again. Keen to find fellow readers, she made an Instagram account (@thetorturedbookdept) to share reading tips and ...

The Military Writers Society of America (MWSA) awarded Skylark, a Literary Fiction book, the Bronze medal for the 2025 Book Awards Season. Skylark tells the story of Rachel Ryker, the first female ...

A pair of Shanghai natives meet in 1947 New York City, get married, and have two children including a girl named Gish, who grows up hearing the same refrain her mother did as a child: “Bad bad girl!” ...

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In contemporary publishing, novels fixated on the past rather than the present have garnered the most attention and prestige. The 68th National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street, 2017. On Friday, ...

A book in an intense, boundary-pushing conversation with The Handmaid’s Tale, Rae Giana Rashad’s work of dystopian fiction drops the reader into an alternate United States, where a young Black Texan ...