We all know the usual suspects when it comes to classic literature. Pride and Prejudice gets another adaptation, The Great ...

I love that literary fiction so often resists easy categorization. I love that this “genre” is not, really, a genre at all.

Horror books are designed to scare you silly, and these literary horror novels are also well-crafted reads — we suggest you read them with the lights on Mason Coile is a pseudonym of Andrew Pyper, the ...

If you followed Literary Twitter in its hey days, you'd know of Duchess Goldblatt and the 'kidney gate'. Cris writes about ...

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. This week’s challenge tests ...

From visiting places associated with favourite books to travelling with multiple generations- these are the top trends likely ...

For more than 50 years, the St. Louis Literary Award has honored many of the most important writers of our time and celebrated the contributions of literature in enriching our lives. The St. Louis ...

Researchers have published a paper demonstrating that reading literary fiction enhances a set of skills and thought processes fundamental to complex social relationships -- and functional societies.

The strangely short history of a publishing niche. Ad Policy The smallest book in the world is on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 1961. (Photo by Keystone / Getty Images) As an English professor, ...

William Wordsworth died a hundred and sixty-five years ago next week, on April 23, 1850. Why is he still so famous? The obvious answer is that he was a genius. But genius isn’t, in itself, enough to ...

Jaipur turns into a living amphitheatre of ideas welcoming the new year and in 2026, the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) ...

An Oxford professor and renowned critic, he was pugnacious, fearless and disdainful of the received wisdom of his intellectual milieu.