This year marks the quincentenary of the publication of First Voyage Around the World, 1519-1522: An Account of Ferdinand ...

Reading, writes Edwina Preston, is a way of journeying on the wings of others without moving from the armchair (or bed). Here ...

On Tuesday evening, award-winning writers Bernadine Evaristo and Claudia Rankine read excerpts of their work and reflected on ...

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture ... for “The Great Gatsby” and other works, but his wife, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, was also ...

and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, not far from his summer home in Wellfleet. In 1990, he and Jill Kneerim founded the Kneerim & Williams literary agency. “She’s been about as good ...

Her mother, Sofia Baidar, is a distinguished writer, poet, and columnist whose works have captivated readers across the country. Carrying forward her family's literary tradition, Ameera Baidar ...

It was heavily promoted by Oprah Winfrey, and in the following years it became a widely assigned book in high schools — a concise literary work of moral instruction, like “To Kill a ...

Olivier Moreillon does not work for, consult ... Sello Duiker was regarded as a “rock star” of South African literature. He was one of a group of budding black South African novelists of ...

Sun City' offers evidence that widespread isolation began long before Americans became absorbed in their phones.

Nor does it work as a reference point for anglophone lovers of European literature, since many of the writers (Gerhard Roth, Ernst Herbeck, Peter Altenberg, Hermann Broch) are available only ...