From psychological thrillers to political expressions, this season’s literary releases arrive with sharp voices and layered ...

One hundred years after his birth, Elmore Leonard still sounds like America talking to itself — dry, funny, and perfectly in ...

The British spy show owes its sarcasm and wit to Mick Herron’s novels. Our critic A.O. Scott breaks down a few sentences from Herron’s latest, “Clown Town.” ...

The Boise State Speech and Debate team continue their 2024-2025 undefeated conference season with a first-place overall ...

Basal-type programs, which structure their main reading comprehension lessons around a core anthology of short full-length ...

This immersive, trance-like novel — the Norwegian’s first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature — takes us inside the ...

The conventional grammar wisdom is that turning verbs into nouns — or what is termed “nominalization” in linguistics — is bad for the health of one's prose. The evidence is painfully clear. Take this ...

Ten emotionally shattering books that test your strength, stay in your bones, and remind you that feeling deeply is its own ...

László Krasznahorkai, whose fiction walks the knife-edge between despair and grace, has become the second Hungarian to win ...

Matthew Stover takes us into the Jedi Master's mind in our exclusive look inside the sumptuous 20th anniversary edition of ...

Socialist mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani admitted Monday he might need another plan to fund his $10 billion ...

Didion in the rehearsal studio where the play she adapted from her book 'The Year of Magical Thinking' was taking shape. (Photo by Fred R. Conrade/The New York Times) Joan Didion is one of America’s ...