(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) This post is by way of a reply to Arthur Krystal’s “Easy Writers,” a thoroughly thought-provoking piece about the ...

There are a ton of different subgenres within fiction. If you want to dive into a novel to escape to another world, there are seemingly endless ways to do just that. Some genres (and subsequent ...

All of the top 10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women ...

LB Beistad is a writer and musician based in Nashville, TN. Her love of gaming began with her cousin introducing her to Banjo Kazooie and Jak and Daxter. It was love at first play. Since then, she has ...

Genre fiction by such authors as Colleen Hoover, N.K. Jemisin, and Rebecca Roanhorse remain extremely popular, and publishers have been increasing their output to meet the demand in recent years for ...

All books provide an escape, but great books—the ones you clutch close to your chest after reading the last page—offer readers a life-affirming blend of comfort and reassurance. And lately, no genre ...

A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...

Out of all the horrifying icebreakers she could have gone with on that snowy first day in a class full of English majors, Prof. Masha Raskolnikov, literatures in English, chose the absolute worst one: ...