If you have the scratch, they have the scares
Scary stories are more than fun, they’re big business.
American Girl Samantha grows up with her first fans, as the company turns 40
As the American Girl doll company celebrates its 40th anniversary, Samantha has turned 25 — and is the subject of a new historical fiction novel by author Fiona Davis.
Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be sold in UK after Palestinian Action support
The Irish author said her books can no longer be sold in the UK after she pledged the royalties to a banned pro-Palestinian group.
‘Luna, Phoenix, Queen’ is a masterfully plotted, gorgeously moving novel
Julie Orringer’s new novel is a multivalent love story, a tale of sickness and health, dementia and brilliance, betrayal and loyalty. It’s both heartbreaking and heartwarming.
Aboard an icebreaker, a writer got a closer look at the Arctic’s ‘Sea Change’
As polar ice melts in the Arctic, shipping lanes are opening up, making the region a new zone of superpower competition. Writer Rana Foroohar explains the stakes in Sea Change.
‘New Yorker’ cartoonists admit to having ‘The Two Saddest Kitchens’
The Two Saddest Kitchens is a comic conversation between Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein. Book critic Maureen Corrigan says it made her laugh and feel better about her own (lack of) cooking.
Writer Yiyun Li lost both of her sons. When words fell short, she turned to music
Li won a Pulitzer for her memoir about the suicides of her two sons. In her new novel, Music Against the Night, she writes about two young prodigies in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Latest in the ‘Divergent’ universe finds a different Tris
Veronica Roth’s latest, The Sixth Faction, takes us back to the beginning, where Beatrice Prior has a choice to make. This time, she chooses another path.
Jennifer Welch isn’t holding back on Trump, Democrats or political division
The podcaster talks to Leila Fadel about her new book, her evolving politics and what it means to build a future with people whose views she strongly opposes.
Poet and essayist Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in literature
The Swedish Academy announced Anne Carson as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday.