Like the better-known and perhaps luckier Georgia O’Keeffe, the American painter Agnes Pelton also found her unique vision in the western desert...

Janene, Cora, and Amadahy live on the banks of the river in a small North Carolina town, but they live centuries apart...

In the place of dispensable banalities—"Hold on," "You will feel better," and so on—Scialabba offers an account of how it's been for him, in the hope that doing so might prove helpful to others.

The Jātaka tales, or stories of the Buddha’s previous lives as a bodhisatta, are included in the Pāli Canon and have for centuries been a rich source of inspiration in Theravada Buddhism...

Ten men have already died while searching the jungles of Uruguay for a reclusive writer,..

Kaminski tells the story of Ethan Crowe, a Lakota Sioux tracker who spent a career with the Delta Forces and the Defense Intelligence Agency...

Ken Liu’s second collection of speculative stories explores migration, memory, and a post-human future through the eyes of parents and their children...

I spoke to Stephen at a moment when our most imminent trouble seems to be the global pandemic of the coronavirus, one that—on the date of our interview, March 18, 2020—appears as though it will only grow worse and more deadly here in North America and around the globe...

A former military interrogator and military intelligence specialist, Rosone’s experience is evident in every page of the book...

Ricardo de Avila would have followed Coronado to the ends of the earth. Instead, Ricardo found the end of his mortal life, and a new one, as a renegade vampire...

As Maya Rodale notes early in this interview, romance novels tend not to get the same respect as other categories of fiction, historical or otherwise...

In "Docile," the debut novel by K. M. Szpara, people pay off family debts by working as indentured personal assistants to the ultra-wealthy....

Grass’s aim is nothing less than to demythologize the American Midwest.

Griswold grapples with a world that is fracturing at its foundation. In this series of poems, all at once dark. humorous and questioning, the author moves from the familiar to the unjust to hope with a keen eye...

Laura Waterman talks about her novel, Starvation Shore (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019), which relies upon memoirs, letters, and diaries to reconstruct the life of the Greely Party as it attempted to survive impossible conditions...

Stein weaves a narrative tapestry whose threads are drawn from the archives of one Sephardic family, with roots in the city of Salonica, then in the Ottoman Empire, now Thessaloniki in Greece...

To catch the people who killed her environmentalist father, the main character of Karl Schroeder’s "Stealing Worlds" (Tor Books, 2019) disappears into a virtual world of overlapping LARPs—live action role-playing games...

An orphaned young woman disguises herself as a boy in order to escape the dangers of being alone in 1870’s San Francisco...

Dark's essays take on self-improvement, self-acceptance, sexual attraction, language, aging, queer visibility, fashion, family, femininity, feminism, yoga culture, airplane seats, and the vilifying of fatness in the name of good health, among other compelling topics...

Choi explores queer, Asian American femininity through the lens of robots, cyborgs, and artificial intelligence...

How does the world of book reviews work?

What does the future hold for the Midwest?

If you live in America, chances are good you’ve heard the term “mental health crisis” bandied about in the media...

In the fantasy medieval land of Trea—a conservative society that despite its worship of the goddess Amur respects her human daughters only as wives and mothers—eighteen-year-old Berona has limited expectations for her future...

Young provides a lyrical exploration of cultural encounters in the Pacific Northwest...