Welcome to the Poetry Challenge A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! The Poetry Challenge See...
On a Sunday night during Lent, a circle of Episcopal nuns sat in their lamp-lit library, chatting, knitting and gazing upon an unlikely altar: An orthopedic...
Dear readers, I moved apartments recently, a task that made me sorely wish I had added even the breeziest treatise on D.I.Y. organizing to my reading...
Few teenagers would want the world to read their poems. At 13, Charlotte Brontë collected her verse in a humble anthology that already hinted at her...
Many professional writers and artists dream of being chosen for a prestigious residency like Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., or MacDowell in Peterborough, N.H. But even...
Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about books that have gone on to find new life as movies, television shows, theatrical productions,...
In 1981, Nettie Jones was shopping her debut novel, “Fish Tales,” a shocking story about a married woman’s booze- and drug-fueled sexual escapades. Full of violence,...
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist who combined gritty realism with playful erotica and depictions of the struggle for individual liberty in Latin America, while also...
“It’s not a cookbook,” the poet Jim Franks said about his new book, “Existential Bread.” To dispel any confusion, here’s what readers won’t find in its...
The elusive novelist Thomas Pynchon will publish a new book this fall, his first in more than a decade. The novel, “Shadow Ticket,” is due out...
