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Margo Jefferson's Constructing a Nervous System has won the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize Book of the Year, given each year for an outstanding work of English-language literature. Jefferson's memoir, which [...]

The Rathbones Folio Prize announced the shortlists for the literary award, given annually to an outstanding work of literature 'in which the subjects being explored achieve their most perfect and [...]

The American Library Association revealed the shortlists for its Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence, which 'recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in [...]

How can you tell the singer from the song? On a good day, you can't -- so let's start with the singer. She's Cécile McLorin Salvant, a 27-year-old with an [...]

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of started teaching women writers in the early Nineties.

The article reviews the exhibition "Black Dolls" at the New-York Historical Society in New York until June 5, 2022.

Byline: Photographed by Mario Testino. B Strong Moving, morphing, leading, flaunting; such is the power of Beyoncé that just one letter tells us who she is. Margo Jefferson explores what [...]

''Don't bring us any more memoirs!'' This is the new cry in the book industry, I'm told, and a foolish cry it is, unless what publishers no longer want are [...]

There's a Civil War hymn whose refrain goes: Jesus loves the little children, All the children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white, All are precious in his [...]

I'm tired of quarrels about fiction versus what is now called creative nonfiction. Partisans of the novel claim it lets one explore human intricacies as no other form can. Advocates [...]

CAN we really keep blaming television and our image-driven culture for the decline of reading? In ''So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance'' (Paul Dry Books), [...]

I wish I hadn't read Willa Cather in high school. I was too proud of being a Chicago girl. I looked to the East, not to the small towns and [...]

A talented young playwright asked if she could go see ''Long Day's Journey Into Night'' with me. ''I've never gotten O'Neill,'' she confessed. ''Maybe I read him at the wrong [...]

Sometimes pure art is not enough. Sometimes we need more than a singular vision. Take documentary photography. We often view it in art galleries, detached from its factual base. We're [...]