Edmund White has been HIV positive and healthy for 20 years. So far, he is one of the lucky few in whom the [...]

Rebecca Brown is one of the best-kept secrets of short fiction. A San Diego native who now lives in Seattle, she made her [...]

Unlike so many other countries in the world, America does not have an active movement of homegrown terrorists. But it once did. In [...]

Caroline Moorehead, the British author and activist, has spent the last two decades writing about refugees and prisoners, but four years ago she [...]

Every year, a writer of importance announces the death of the novel. In 2004, it was V.S. Naipaul standing over the novel's grave. [...]

Amy Tan’s latest novel, Saving Fish from Drowning (Putnam, hardcover, $26.95), pulls a fast one on readers. It begins with a story about [...]

Frank McCourt might be smiling these days, but the darkness within keeps leaking out. After publishing two best-selling memoirs about growing up poor [...]

Every winter in Iceland, friends and relatives give each other a book. It is a national tradition, this exchange of literary presents, which [...]

“When I speak, Father, it is the world / That I must mention,” wrote W.S. Merwin in his 1954 collection, The Dancing Bears. [...]

Several years ago, Publisher’s Weekly reported that John Berendt had single-handedly boosted tourism in Savannah, Ga., by 46 percent, all thanks to his [...]