Philip Atlee’s 1940 story of rich and reckless young adults is back after eight decades of being out of print.

Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, first published in 1740, is widely regarded as the first English novel. It was certainly the first bestseller, hyped, saluted, and scorned in equal ...

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 ...

What seems like a story of a man hoping to reunite with a childhood flame is really a high-wire act about police brutality, racist conspiracies and much, much more.

Its publisher, Hachette, will not release the novel in the United States and will discontinue its U.K. edition, citing its commitment to “original creative expression and storytelling.” By Alexandra ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Michael Cunningham about his new novel, "Day." Cunningham won a Pulitzer Prize for a previous novel, "The Hours." Michael Cunningham has written his first novel in ...

“A long, long time ago, maybe twenty or so years ago, I told myself that even if you have one page about a person eating his lunch you should have a history in your head,” the author Edward P. Jones ...

It didn’t take long for BookToker Asia Lin to understand that “Wicked,” the book by Gregory Maguire, would be nothing like the musical she had first seen months earlier. “It was the first page,” Lin ...

This past October, subscribers to Woman of Letters, the Substack newsletter of the writer Naomi Kanakia, received an e-mail titled “Why I am publishing a novella on Substack.” This novella, Kanakia ...

Nineteenth-century novels aren’t usually on the front lines of today’s culture wars. But in Poland, two new competing takes ...

The Tale of Genji, written by a Japanese woman named Murasaki Shikibu around 1,000 years ago, is widely regarded as the world’s first novel. Spanning 54 chapters and some 1,400 pages (in an unabridged ...