Why the latest literary trend favors short, punchy prose over epics. Novelists Anika Jade Levy and Jenny Offill weigh in.

Here in the muddy middle is where confidence erodes, not because the writer lacks ability but because the process becomes complex.

In “The Hill,” a daughter comes of age through visits to her imprisoned mother, inheriting the afterlife of a youthful ...

The developers told us how the game is shaping up to be something novel in the genre.

For years, fans of Kelly Link, one of the finest purveyors of contemporary short fiction, have wondered what the author would be able to do with a full novel — and have eagerly waited for her to ...

Sally Rooney, who made such a splash with her first novel, Conversations with Friends, back in 2017, has made it clear with each succeeding book that she is no flash in the pan. Intermezzo, her fourth ...

This week’s challenge is focused on unfinished novels that their authors didn’t live to see published. In the five ...