Why the latest literary trend favors short, punchy prose over epics. Novelists Anika Jade Levy and Jenny Offill weigh in.

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A staple in Australian high school curriculums, Malouf’s 1982 novel brings three bird-lovers together in 1914 Queensland. Two ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Don't get me wrong. I love a sugar-coated page turner as much as anyone. But sometimes I want a novel that will genuinely change ...

Re “The Dogged, Irrational Persistence of Literary Fiction,” by Gerald Howard (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, Oct. 20): Defending the continuing vitality of the literary novel, Mr. Howard points to ...

Wollstonecraft wrote across genres – from fiction, travel and children’s books to literary criticism, translations and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. This is arguably Woolf’s most popular collection. With over ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Books are displayed at the home of the celebrated late ...

A s a fannish undergraduate in the late 1990s, I took a creative-writing workshop thinking I might write science fiction. I was quickly disabused of that notion. “I don’t do science fiction, and I don ...