The first day of the ‘4th Shillong Literary Festival’ in Meghalaya attracted over 3,500 people, with numbers continuing to ...

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about literary culture. This week’s installment tests your knowledge of ...

From novelists to leaders of literary organizations to cartoonists, we asked what books they’re most excited to give as gifts ...

The Wilton Library and the Wilton Historical Society are both offering November events, while Weir Farm seeks ...

Test your knowledge of the best opening lines in literature with this quiz. If you enjoy reading, identify as a bookworm, and ...

The First World War inspired profound poetry, words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle were evoked perhaps more vividly than ever before. The First World War poets – many of whom lost ...

This week the Palestine Festival of Literature, known as Palfest, announced that over 1,000 writers have signed on to a literary boycott of Israel. In a public letter, these writers declared that ...

And self-serious. Our literary criticism features a great deal of “I,” the pronoun most likely to overstay its welcome. In the right hands, this conflation of narrative and critique can have ...

Sherry Lansing, Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing, Gene Simmons Among Signatories of Counter-Petition Opposing Boycott of Israeli Literary Institutions Their letter responded to an earlier petition from ...

A competing letter organized by a pro-Israel group has drawn more than 1,000 signatories, including the authors Cynthia Ozick and Howard Jacobson. Sally Rooney, Percival Everett, Jhumpa Lahiri ...