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“The Chocolate War,” published 50 years ago, became one of the country’s most challenged books. Its author, Robert Cormier, spent years fighting attempts to ban it — like many authors today. 
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A new scholarly book with obvious Bronté connections: Virginia Woolf and the Lives, Works, and Afterlives of the Brontës by Hilary Newma
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Authors including Dreda Say Mitchell, Harriet Tyce and Sarah Pinborough have expressed disapproval of the Theakston Old Peculier award – the UK’s most prestigious crime-writing prize
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From calfskin to cut-and-paste, a tribute to the graft and craft that goes into books
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He sold millions of copies of his Shardlake novels, set in 16th-century England. His death came days before the premiere of a TV adaptation on Hulu.
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Basim Khandaqji, a Palestinian writer who has been confined to an Israeli prison cell for the past 20 years, has won this year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his forth novel, A …
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Dozens of books have disappeared from Warsaw to Paris. The police are looking into who is taking them, and why — a tale of money, geopolitics, crafty forgers and lackluster library security.
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the purpose of the day is to celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom, assess the state of press freedom throughout the world, defend the media from attacks on their independence and pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
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The Oxford English Dictionary is a monumental achievement, the product of devoted obsessives for whom words mean even more than perhaps they should.
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About the essayist: David Skinner is an editor and writer who writes about language, usage, and dictionaries. He is the author of The Story of Ain’t: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published and a former member of the usage panel of the American Heritage Dictionary.
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We asked the authors and translators longlisted for International Booker Prize 2024 to recommend their favourite works of global fiction that have been translated into English
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Richard Owen, the Victorian scientist who first named the “dinosaurs”, claimed that he could identify an animal, even an extinct one, from inspecting a single bone. Richard Fallon revisits other Owen-inspired fictions — by R. D. Blackmore, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Charles Kingsley — and finds literature layered with scientific, religious, and political interventions, spurred by the discovery of prehistoric life.
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Fiction, from 1949: “The noise of the tree was worse than any known human noise, because of that frightening, toneless, throatless quality.”
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The author of The New York Trilogy, Leviathan and 4 3 2 1 has died at the age of 77. Here are some of the most memorable quotes from interviews he gave throughout his life
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Man who emerges from German TV series is a far cry from myth of tortured artist alienated from his family and job
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At 84, The Handmaid’s Tale author is as outspoken as ever. She talks about aging, culture wars - and why “the orange guy” can’t be allowed back into the White House
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Over more than 30 books, Mr. Auster often used New York as a backdrop for stories of characters struggling to make sense of life’s random chaos.
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With critically lauded works like “The New York Trilogy,” the charismatic author drew inspiration from his adopted borough and won worldwide acclaim.
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The 2023 Freedom to Write Index records the most jailed writers globally since the Index launched 5 years ago: 339 writers from 33 countries jailed in 2023, that's 101 more than in 2019.
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ALEJANDRO CHACOFF is a writer based in Rio de Janeiro. He is the author of Apátridas, a novel, and the literary editor at piauí magazine. His work appears in The New Yorker, The NYRB, the New York Times Book Review, n+1, and elsewhere. JESSICA SEQUEIRA is a writer and translator currently based in Santiago, Chile.
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Although one of the best-known writers of his generation, Martin Amis was shortlisted for the Booker Prize just once, for this highly inventive portrait of a Nazi war criminal, whose life story is told in reverse
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In the poetry marketplace, her praise had reputation-making power, while her disapproval could be withering.
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Lawyer turned novelist who enjoyed huge success with his bestselling Shardlake historical mysteries
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