Genre Explorations

George Eliot’s Middlemarch and I have had a difficult relationship. Forty-five years ago, having just passed my entrance exam, I went up to Cambridge in the snow-engulfed Winter of Discontent...

Author Greg Mosse reflects on writing climate fiction and the role that writers can play in helping to find climate change solutionsWhen you set your novel in the near future—I...

‘I shall never see sales of my poetry,’ writes Henry Normal on the dearth of reading options in an airport’s duty-free, ‘next to a giant Toblerone’. Whether or not Mr....

Bart Sutter in the apple trees. “Lake Superior is God.” Bart Sutter wrote that declaration in his 1998 book Cold Comfort, a collection of essays about “life at the top...

Charles Lamosway does not make a great first impression. In the opening pages of Morgan Talty’s debut novel, “Fire Exit,” the White narrator confesses to the creepy habit of sitting...

An outstanding new biography of Judith Jones, the legendary Knopf editor who helped shape modern American literature Some biographers allow their subjects too much slack and are hesitant to find...

Transworld has clinched Jacqueline Wilson’s Think Again, an adult novel which revisits the characters of Wilson’s Girls series.  Former Bantam publisher Frankie Gray acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Caroline Walsh...

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