Philosopher Slavoj Zizek is the author of more than 50 books, including Liberal Fascisms, a new essay collection that ...

Writers are fed a bevy of mantras—“show don’t tell,” “kill your darlings”—which provide the security that there are rules, ...

A stirring memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ada Ferrer chronicles her family’s life in the aftermath of ...

The historian Ada Ferrer’s new family memoir retells the story of Cuba through the individuals who matter most to her.

A gothic horror tale, a creepy science-fiction romp, a sweeping romance, an intergenerational saga, a book about birds — here ...

“Do we really need another book about the Lewis and Clark expedition?” asked Andrea Wulf in The New York Times. The answer, after reading Craig Fehrman’s new page-turner, is “an emphatic yes.” One ...

Olga Freidenberg’s journals recorded the indignities and horrors of daily life in the Soviet Union. Review by Gary Saul Morson ...

What the rise of A.I. and the gutting of books coverage across U.S. media will mean for literature. By Dwight Garner In 1981, Donald Barthelme published “Challenge,” a funny and weirdly prescient ...

• Five local high school students serve as Books UnBanned Teen Ambassadors, leading advocacy efforts against book censorship • Author Angie Thomas spoke in person at the Westby Area Performing Arts ...