For as long as we have been alive, Jews have been known as the People of the Book, both admiringly and dismissively. Critical ...

I believe I had the setting in mind before anything else, since the island was inspired by an actual place I visited. I ...

Richard Powers’s recent novels have traded complexity for preachiness, but his latest is an effective twist on AI panic.

In a pointedly absurd moment in the novel, Augie March tells of a blind beggar he saw in a Naples seafood market toward the ...

Vinson Cunningham’s debut novel focuses on a campaign staffer’s indeterminate views, using them to shed light on the rise of ...

A song heavy with restlessness, "Urge for Going" was written in the mid-'60s before Mitchell left Canada, and was originally recorded by her friend Tom Rush. It was eventually released as a B-side to ...

Saul Bellow is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American literature. Bellow's work explores the most important cultural and social experiences of his era: the impact of the ...

In “McNeal,” the playwright Ayad Akhtar explores the way artificial intelligence is disrupting the literary world and raising ...

“Hillbilly Elegy” made him famous, and his denunciations of Donald Trump brought him liberal fans. Now, as a Vice-Presidential candidate, he’s remaking his image as the heir to the MAGA ...

"McNeal," starring Robert Downey Jr., tackles issue of machine learning in art, while "Vladimir" confronts Vladimir Putin's ...

Buckley’s journalistic skills were of such a high order that he was frequently mistaken for a journalist. • Saul Bellow, possibly the only Nobel Prize winner ever to publish a book about a National ...