Forget dry history textbooks. Readers share the deeply researched, wildly entertaining novels that pull you directly into the past.

Ours, wrote the critic and essayist Megan O’Grady in 2019, is the golden age of historical fiction. Think of the greatest contemporary novelists, and many—Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Russell ...

Book lovers know that you can't always describe a book as simply being "fiction" or "nonfiction." That's why there are so many specific genres that books fall into. Genre is just another name for ...

In honor of Women’s History Month this March, Jennifer Jubenville chose a few of her current favorites in the Historical Fiction genre.

Clark Gable reading the novel "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell. One of his greatest roles was that of Rhett Butler in the MGM film adaption of the book. For history enthusiasts, historical ...

(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 ...

In contemporary publishing, novels fixated on the past rather than the present have garnered the most attention and prestige. The 68th National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street, 2017. On Friday, ...

Participants attend an international literary seminar in Beijing focused on promoting Chinese genre fiction overseas, including mystery, thriller, suspense, historical fantasy and online literature.