The seeming decline of a certain type of novelist is much discussed and debated in the literary world. But the bigger ...

Michael Chabon’s novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which chronicled its protagonists’ careers during the ...

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Congratulations to Percival Everett, who won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel "James." The perspective of "James" is that of Huckleberry Finn’s comrade, Jim, bringing Mark Twain ...

The three main productions of the 2025-26 Westport Country Playhouse season are “The Importance of Being Earnest,” “Primary ...

In Appalachia, where overdose deaths remain high, author Barbara Kingsolver is turning fiction into action, using her ...

William Kennedy's Albany Trilogy, with "Legs," "Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game," "Ironweed," joins the Library of America's ...

The 22-year-old son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon has been accused of choking and raping a woman in Manhattan last year, prosecutors announced.

The Pulitzer Prize honours Joseph Pulitzer who stood out as the very embodiment of American journalism. Hungarian-born, an intensely indomitable figure, ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has just pipped children’s author Rachel Renée Russell to the top of the list of the UK’s ...

On June 23, 1775, Londoners focused on enjoying a regatta, not fretting about a brewing rebellion.

“James” is often described by literary critics as a retelling or reimagining of the American classic “Adventures of ...