Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to wonder how the late author Joan Didion would feel about having ...

This appealing, tuneful and politically potent new musical has songs co-written by Grammy winner Joy Huerta and features ...

Discovered in a filing cabinet in Joan Didion’s office after she died, the 150 loose pages of notes formed a kind of journal ...

They could have called it “Virginia Hasn’t Always Been for Lovers,” after Phyl Newbeck’s book, subtitled “Interracial ...

The Hungarian capital’s Jewish community hoped the worst Nazi persecutions would bypass them. The terror still came.

There’s a famous two-decade-old Paris Review interview with Haruki Murakami in which he, one of the world’s most celebrated novelists, details his daily routine. He wakes up at 4AM, works for five ...

That’s Viet Thanh Nguyen, writing in his latest collection, “To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.” The book originated as six lectures that the Pulitzer Prize winner gave for the prestigious ...

Sonia Faleiro’s new book How I Write attempts to extract this very clarity from this haze of the creative process. The book ...

a person would get paid well enough (from a big old book advance?) to take unpaid leave from their day job and spend their time writing that brilliant book. In my mind, at least, they’re tucked ...

A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

Only Wallace Stegner could, as his protagonist says, “make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these.” ...