Did anyone really think that an issue of the New Yorker would magically include even 50 percent women writers? No. Did we want to be reminded of that perpetual imbalance? Perhaps not. Did we need to be reminded? Absolutely.

NEW YORK — After a year's hiatus, the Pulitzer Prize remains golden for fiction writers. Adam Johnson's "The Orphan Master's Son" was in the to...

The Orphan Master's Son (OMS) is the kind of book that you have to live with for a month to get to know. This experience reinforces its subject, propaganda, and its influence on our privacy.

"The Orphan Master's Son" by Adam Johnson won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2013. The book, set in North Korea, is about a young man who rises to bec...

Here's a look at some of the books and authors generating most buzz ahead of this year's Pulitzer Prizes.

When people talk about Dean Young, they talk about how his poems are loved by a.) poets and b.) everyone else. I don't know if that's true, I haven't conducted a survey, but after reading Bender: New and Selected Poems, I hope that it is.

Junot Díaz joins me on the last Moyers & Company of 2012 to discuss the evolution of the great American story and how straddling two different cultures affects his perspective.

At a moment when cultural trend-watchers are predicting the imminent demise of the traditional book in lieu of digitization, the American Antiquarian Society is honoring the strength of print as it celebrates its 200th anniversary.

This summer, I found myself re-reading Alice Walker's The Color Purple, a book that is both wonderful and awful. After finishing, I asked myself, "Why do some books by great authors (or parts of books by great authors) work so well, while others fail?"