Recently, President Donald Trump banned three media organizations from the White House because of their negative coverage of him and his administration. “I mean, there’s something wrong with a country ...

Cross-stitch watercolor by Demetris Papadimitropoulos When Aly changed hir name, hir mother heard more than a new set of ...

Extra, extra. You’ve seen the headlines. Men—particularly straight men—have stopped reading fiction. This year saw the rise ...

Last week the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which oversees the districts of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and ...

Tonight, at a ceremony in New York City, Kirkus Reviews announced the winners of the 13th annual Kirkus Prize, which awards $50,000 to “books of exceptional merit” in three categories: ...

It is quite rare to find someone who is a first-class academic and analyst, and is also able to become a first-class activist, but Leah Stokes is a triple threat. A political scientist at UC Santa ...

Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in all five categories—Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated ...

Many readers are perplexed by Austen’s habit of indicating men’s fortunes in terms of annual income, while women’s fortunes ...

Partita, by Barbara Kingsolver, is available now from Harper, so we asked her a few questions about her writing life. * What ...

I was no virgin when I met my husband, and he knew it. We have been monogamous, but I wouldn’t call myself chaste. (I can ...

In my forthcoming debut novel, the Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford, nearly every terrible thing that can happen ...

On the Saturday morning of Labor Day weekend, my best friend Dani, also a writer, wrote to tell me that Robin Morgan, the ...