Discover notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

At the Fire Hour stands as both tribute and testimony, a quiet but insistent record of what it meant to survive the storm and ...

It took author Madeleine Thien nearly a decade to write her new novel The Book of Records. In the story, 7-year-old Lina and her father take refuge at an imagined place called the Sea. There, ...

Virginia Woolf’s novel, published in 1925, is set on a single day in June, and yet it encompasses so much more.

Drawing on folklore traditions from around the world, these thrilling and entertaining books put fresh spins on classic tales ...

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo recently published her latest children’s book titled “For A Girl Becoming.” KUNM spoke ...

He survived electroshock treatments and the threat of lobotomy to become one of Ireland’s most popular poets. The Irish Times ...

The first time I picked up Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, I only managed the first hundred pages before feeling hopelessly lost ...

From a longlist of 16, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2025 Women’s prize for fiction. Our experts review the ...

Stories, poems, essays, and novels compel readers to reckon with environmental degradation, question the status quo, and ...

Upon an initial reading, Maria Reva’s remarkable debut novel, “Endling,” might be categorized several different ways: a war novel about modern-day Ukraine; a metafictional tale that examines the ...

In the darkened sitting room of her 18-room Georgetown house, Sally Quinn—journalist, famed Washington hostess, and widow of ...