Writing novels—never mind entire series—takes determination, persistence, imagination, and craft...

While all fiction writers can pull characters from their imaginations and commit them to the page, most readers can’t do what Charley Sutherland can: pull characters from the page and commit them to the real world...

In this modern version of the myth of Theseus and Ariadne, Ariadne is a complacent Daddy‘s girl when we meet her...

Ben Novotny was born with a rare chromosomal abnormality that caused profound mental retardation and seizures...

"The Third Daughter" is an essential and compelling read, not least because although set in the late nineteenth century its story is as contemporary as yesterday’s headlines...

"Poetry gave me back a way to find my culture, my history,” says Jason Bayani...

Harman takes scientific facts, as we know them today, and weaves them into narratives that have the tone, grace and drama of myth...

Flavia de Luce, who lives in an enormous manor house in England, with her widowed father and two sisters. It’s 1950, and England is still rebuilding itself after WWII...

Cash explores the complexities of southern class, race, and gender relations against the backdrop of the 1929 Loray Mill strike...

“I'm a huge fan of the [space opera] genre, but it took me a while to get the confidence to write my own,” Birmingham says.

A man turns himself into the police for kidnapping an underage girl...

Francie Meeker and her best friend, Vi Carothers, bought into the promise offered to middle-class, especially white, women in the mid-twentieth-century United States:..

Part travelogue, part history, Walton charts the opportunities and pitfalls confronting small states that have become particularly acute in an era of identity politics and civilizational leadership...

The stories and fables in A Girl Goes into the Forest twist and turn...

First published in 1918 only in the Aanaar Sámi language and in Finnish, this anthology is now available in a centennial English-language edition...

Davitt explores the intersections of myth, science, and humanity through her beautifully accessible poems...

It’s 1991, and recent college graduate Mim wants to be a writer, but for now she is folding clothes at Benetton...

"The Lost Daughter" is a thoroughly satisfying read: Romanov fans will rejoice at this latest iteration of the alternative narrative...

In Cadwell Turnbull’s "The Lesson", the U.S. Virgin Islands serve as Earth’s entry point for the Ynaa,

"Dear Current Occupant" is also a letter to Knight’s younger selves, to the girl and eventually young woman who lived in these places and who struggled to discover who she was and who she could be...

Considered one of the greatest Hebrew writers, in 1966, Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...

The Hazel Wood(Flatiron Books, 2018) is a shivery delight, like a dazzling vintage ball gown of paisley silk, slithering over your head...

Award-winning journalist Rebecca Clarren has been writing about the rural West for twenty years...

In his interview, Fletcher discusses the research that informs the novel’s “soft apocalypse"...