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...

"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...

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

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

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

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"...

The Golden Wolf seamlessly blends Old Norse folklore with creative imagination to paint a picture of ninth-century Norway from the inside...

Karen Hugg loves plants and is thrilled when new cultivars or varieties are discovered...

It is not easy to interview a writer of murder mysteries without giving away too many details...

Nellie Bly is in some respects a household name, yet the passage of time has erased many of her accomplishments from popular memory...

Laury Silvers discusses her transition from writing scholarship to historical fiction...

The only thing that endures after millennia of espionage and intrigue is love...

A picaresque novel about a serious boy with special powers, "The Lost Puzzler" takes place in an impoverished, technologically backwards world.

It’s 1979, and the Islamic Revolution is just around the corner, as is a massive solar eclipse...

Slucki’s memoir blends the scholarly and literary, grounding the story of his grandfather and father in the broader context of the twentieth century...

Willig nimbly balances Emily’s story against her grandfather’s, interweaving the stories of three families across two timelines into a seamless whole...

"Ways to Hide in Winter" is a powerful story about violence and redemption, betrayal and empathy, and how we reconcile the unforgivable in those we love...

Wellington turns his prolific imagination—which is more often associated with earthbound monsters like zombies, vampires, and werewolves—to the threat of an alien invasion...

"Practice Dying" is about twins, David and Jamila, who seek meaning and connection from opposite ends of the world...

jayy dodd offers her own brilliant reflections on so many things: the contemporary moment, dystopia, her transition, and more...

101 years have passed since the murder of the Imperial Family of Russia at Yekaterinburg, but their appeal has not diminished...

For writer Sophia Shalmiyev, the question was never “who is my mother,” but rather, “where has she gone?”

For twenty years, 47-year-old Isabel Toledo has been ghostwriting the stories of Holocaust survivors...