This year’s National Book Festival, a free annual event hosted by the Library of Congress, was already set to be a hit with big names like Ruth Bader Ginsberg and… Read more »

Protests have broken out in the Dominican Republic, where Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Pedro Henríquez Ureña Literary Prize. As Sibylla Brodzinsky reports for The Guardian, the backlash… Read more »

Held every year in June, International Crime Month is a celebration of crime fiction from foreign shores. Four of America’s most prominent independent publishers—Grove Atlantic, Akashic Books, Melville House, and… Read more »