In 1981, Donald Barthelme published “ Challenge ,” a funny and weirdly prescient short story, in The New Yorker. Its premise ...

WRITING CREATIVITY AND SOUL. By Sue Monk Kidd. Knopf. 240 pages. $30. Beloved novelist and memoirist Sue Monk Kidd is a native of Georgia who now makes her home in North Carolina — but her literary ...

She Takes the Helm” is a deeply honest, gripping and beautifully written memoir about Jacobs’ decades of commercial fishing.

Academic book reviews go beyond summarizing—they provide a balanced evaluation of a work’s arguments, methodology, and significance within its scholarly field. They guide readers on the book’s ...

I think this book should have come with a statutory warning -- like one finds on certain goods -- because McCurdy adds a ...

John Edgar Wideman, acclaimed author of more than 25 books, has written yet another full-hearted volume. It’s called “Slaveroad,” a genre-defying and clear-eyed meditation on the roiling effects of ...