(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) This post is by way of a reply to Arthur Krystal’s “Easy Writers,” a thoroughly thought-provoking piece about the ...

Ranked the top writing university in the nation, the University of Iowa’s professors of English and creative writing offer a plethora of unique courses, tackling special topics both in the classroom ...

The debate between literary fiction and genre fiction is a long-standing one. Genre fiction is accused of being insignificant and shallow while literary fiction is called pretentious and boring. There ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But even if you already know what type of books you like, it can be fun to expand your horizons and check out some new ones. If ...

It has been called a movement, a genre, a cultural aesthetic. Afrofuturism is all of those, but it's also more than a promise that Black people exist in the future. It's more complex than taking ...

TikTok's popular BookTok channel has been buzzing about a new genre called "romantasy'' that is spawning whole sections in bookstores. Jeffrey Brown visited the stacks and talked to author Rebecca ...

This year at Yale, two new literature classes will push the boundaries — cultural, linguistic, and geographic — of what we talk about when we talk about medieval literature. The aims of the classes ...

"May the force be with you." "Now, you're in the sunken place." Even if you haven’t read and watched the books, TV shows or movies those phrases come from, you’ve likely heard most of them. That, in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...