(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) This post is by way of a reply to Arthur Krystal’s “Easy Writers,” a thoroughly thought-provoking piece about the ...

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Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Pundits in the literary world have been bemoaning the decline of literary magazines for years. These complaints have only ...

English teachers have long claimed reading books makes you a better person, maybe because their livelihoods have long depended on it. Now they've got proof, courtesy of the science wing. But not just ...

From a death obsessed young woman to the wives of convicted killers, March’s new releases are all about the interior worlds of women. Contributor. Forbes contributors publish independent expert ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Books are displayed at the home of the celebrated late ...

Nominees for the 2025 Townsend Prize for Fiction, Georgia’s most prestigious literary award, were announced over the holidays. Presented by the Atlanta Writers Club and the Georgia Writers Museum, the ...

Writer Canisia Lubrin, known for her poetry, has won this year's Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which honors women and nonbinary storytellers in the U.S. and Canada. Lubrin's debut fiction work, ...

From the New York Times: “A study published in the journal Science … found that after reading literary fiction, as opposed to popular fiction or serious nonfiction, people performed better on tests ...

The Military Writers Society of America (MWSA) awarded Skylark, a Literary Fiction book, the Bronze medal for the 2025 Book Awards Season. Skylark tells the story of Rachel Ryker, the first female ...

RJ Theatre Company has announced an expansion into literary fiction, marking a new phase for the New York-based company founded by Emma Tadmor. Known for its formal rigor and stripped-down production ...