Metamorphoses. By Karolina Watroba. Franz Kafka’s fame is not only the product of literary excellence. He also got lucky, as this biography of the writer’s afterlife reveals. It traces his ...

Michael Hingston will celebrate 10 years of counting the days to Christmas with the release of the incredibly popular Short Story Advent Calendar.

The Books of the Year 2024 is a collection of picks from FT writers and critics across a broad range of subjects — from business and economics to sport, music and fiction — and to suit all tastes. But ...

Award-winning author Heather Frese traces the roots of her prize-winning novel, "The Baddest Girl on the Planet," to her studies at WVU.

There is some hubris in daring to define the key features of a century’s worth of novels, but Edwin Frank admits his book isn ...

How will the internet evolve in the coming decades? Fiction writers have explored some possibilities. In his 2019 novel “Fall,” science fiction ...

The 75th National Book Awards celebrated with a ceremony, comedy from Kate McKinnon and music from Jon Batiste. Percival ...

The author’s sophomore novel, out now from Avid Reader Press, follows a Bosnian refugee in the U.S. who is reeling from a ...

USC professor Percival Everett wins the National Book Award for Fiction for 'James,' a retelling of 'Huckleberry Finn' from the character Jim's point of view.

In 2023, the lead-up to the National Book Awards was fraught. Ahead of the event, rumors circulated about finalists planning ...

"I know that when everything goes dark, the sun's still up there," said Lifetime Achievement Award-winner Barbara Kingsolver ...

Percival Everett’s “James" won the National Book Award for fiction. For nonfiction, Jason De León’s “Soldiers and Kings: ...