The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

A popular theme in fantasy, romance, and even mystery genres is that of a narrative centered around books. Literature is ...

I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Alice Walker and others were cultural ...

Whenever we have a free afternoon, my nine-year-old and I visit our favorite bookshop. By now, we have a routine. Ella makes a beeline to the graphic novels. Unlike prose, which takes her days to read ...

Horror books are designed to scare you silly, and these literary horror novels are also well-crafted reads — we suggest you read them with the lights on Mason Coile is a pseudonym of Andrew Pyper, the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Actresses Irene Maiorino and Alba Caterina Rohrwacher on the television series "My Brilliant Friend," based on a novel by Elena ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about women in comedy. From romance to fantasy and even YA and books for teens, there have always been LGBTQ+ writers and ...