How has the economic crisis affected our best literary journals? Can literary journals continue to serve their traditional function of discovering and promoting the best new writing in the changed technological environment?

A new translation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's In The First Circle which appeared in English last year, presents a "restored text" of the Russian novelist's masterwork. It is a towering achievement.

The violent and feral Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre, the mysterious Woman in White whose escape from an asylum begins Wilkie Collins's gripping thrill...

In an age where too many pundits are anxious not to offend allies in their own camp and not to take too many risks with their opponents, Hitchens is a reminder of the irreplaceable role of the untamed intellectual .

Wylie has now become something far more menacing in the literary undergrowth. In a business environment where many of the principal publishers, bookse...

The winner of the election to decide the Oxford professor of poetry will be announced today, with the victor almost certain to be Geoffrey Hill. In a ...

There are some wonderfully talented authors in this group, they all have something interesting and different to say, and hopefully there's something for everyone.

Amidst all the doom and gloom, I just want to take a moment to proclaim that this is quite possibly the most exciting time to be a reader in my lifetime.

I'm tired of people saying Men Don't Read. Men LOVE to read. But the more publishing repeats the empty mantra that Men Don't Read the less they're going to try to appeal to men, which is where this vicious cycle begins.

David Shields practices what he preaches. Aphorisms in the Nietzsche manner are the coin of the literary realm that surfaces in his manifesto, Reality Hunger.

Kortya has now broken from his crime comfort zone with So Cold the River, a gothic tale of suspense clocking in at an atmospheric and tension-drenched 500+ pages.

I wonder what Charles Dickens would think of serialized ebooks. The topic has been on my mind recently as I re-evaluate the policy regarding serial ebooks at Smashwords.

Colum McCann wrote the New Yorkiest and, many feel, the best of 9.11 novels, Let the Great World Spin, and won the National Book Award for it.

Don Linn's seen most angles of the book business as a publisher and distributor. He's also been an investment banker, and explored briefly a promising digital publishing start-up venture, before pulling out.

Every one of the 30,000 attendees entered BookExpo America with dreams--and at BEA they all seem so tantalizingly possible.

At a time when university literature departments are confronting painful budget cuts, a moribund job market and pointed scrutiny about the purpose and...

Damion Searls has found and freed the lean, shapely and modern American classic inside the very definition of a "baggy monster." Henry David Thoreau'...

What is most compelling about Alice Munro's stories is the sense we have of peering into the darkest recesses of people's hearts, eavesdropping, learning their tortured secrets. In an age of reality TV this may seem passé.

It's no accident that Larsson's original title for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, now bastardized by the American publishers, was Men Who Hate Women.

Set in the same universe as that of her novel Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke's "The Ladies of Grace Adieu" stands on its own as a series of glittering dark tales that draw on the legends of northern Europe.