You know what drives me crazy? When everyone agrees on something in literature that's just plain wrong. We've all heard the ...

Queer books are having a moment. In 2022, sales of LGBTQ+ fiction doubled those of two years prior. Increased mainstream interest in queer stories has transformed what book publishing data analyst ...

I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Alice Walker and others were cultural ...

There is a strange comfort in meeting a character on the page and feeling as if you already know them. Readers often speak of Elizabeth Bennet, Pip, Jane Eyre, Meursault or Raskolnikov with the ...

Reviewing “The Last Death of the Year” by Sophie Hannah is against my better judgement. The book is billed as an Agatha Christie murder mystery featuring the great writer’s most famous character, ...