Boyle’s novel “Saint of the Narrows Street” captures the feel of a Brooklyn neighborhood and the characters whose lives are shaped by violence. Lucy Rose’s beautiful, terrifying novel ...

For Mariana, whose fiery political writing is an inspiration to her fellow Basques, that joy comes from a brief encounter with a young soldier named Isidro, who has left his remote village to ...

Likely for similar reasons, an adjacent genre is making a splash on the international best-seller charts: healing, or feel-good, fiction. A bit hard to define, the genre is not held together by ...

(Or a mix of both.) But for those who like to indulge in books that are grounded in real-world figures and history, the historical fiction genre is here with a positively sweeping array of ...

The scientists documented the differences between the two modes of writing. Neither mode approximated real life conditions. The students were instructed to write in cursive without lifting the stylus ...

Note, for example ... definition of ‘fiction’ that can be applied transculturally. ‘Fiction’ is necessarily a thick term insofar as it presupposes some metaphysical framework that separates fiction ...

May 1, 2024 • Rachel Cusk joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "The Bible" and "The Stolen Pigeons" by Marguerite Duras, which were translated from the French, by Deborah Treisman, and ...

How can we render the language of the past? What’s the difference between historical facts and historical fiction? What does writing about the past say about the present? In this course, you will ...