Restlessness has always had a literary mirror, and few bodies of work hold it as fiercely as these French masterpieces. They ...

The year’s best fiction and nonfiction, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

The Irish poet’s work was rooted in a close feeling for the local—but reached out to embrace a world of readers.

The Intentions of Thunder” includes poems from Smith’s nine collections, as well as new and previously uncollected poems that ...

All eyes in publishing are turned to the 76th annual National Book Awards being held in Manhattan. Novels by Megha Majumdar and Karen Russell, and a memoir by Yiyun Li are among the finalists ...

Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective subjectivity, to the inner life of a country in the throes of deep pain and ...

Richard Barnett pokes at Larkin’s protective carapace of soot-stained gloom and finds a writer with an unillusioned yet tenderly perceptive sense of Nature, in all its beauty and indifference ...

Poetry to explore writing from the woods Hidden in the wood: potash, charcoal, resin, tar. Treasures forgotten. If you don’t recognise it, ...

Black trans singer-songwriter Liniker, from Araraquara, Brazil, made LGBTQ + history at the 26th Latin Grammy Awards ceremony ...

A book by Erin Murphy, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, has been named to the Julie Suk Award longlist for the ...

Six professors share excerpts from their latest works By Bethany McDonald On Nov. 6, students and staff gathered in the President's Room (MSU 250) at 6:30 p.m. for the English Faculty Reading, where ...

Far from mere bookstores, these outlets merge libraries, coffee lounges and cocktail bars into a one-stop-shop for ...