Summer is alive, book stores are reopening, and print unit sales have risen by 6.8%, according to the PW Staff at Publishers Weekly! Following a bleak period for book sales,… Read more »

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Here’s a story for the ages: last year, Maria Konnikova, a New Yorker columnist and the bestselling author of The Confidence Game, announced her plans to write a book about the world of high-stakes poker… Read more »

2017 was a triumphant year for the short story. Whether in the form of the gushing critical reception (and a spot on the National Book Award shortlist) for a collection like Carmen Maria… Read more »

Last week, the prominent Ukrainian poet, novelist, and dissident Serhiy Zhadan was seized by government security forces in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, held overnight, and ordered to leave the country. As… Read more »

“So wildly wrong that it defies rational analysis,” ranks among the toughest reviews an author can receive—particularly if it comes from a Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist in response to your… Read more »

Ken Kalfus, the author of, among other things, the funniest novel ever written about 9/11 and the best short story ever written about an IMF official, recently published a piece… Read more »

It’s been six months since the release of the executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on torture (and Melville House’s publication of the report in book form), yet… Read more »

Leo Tolstoy lived several lifetimes in one, and filled them all with writing. So when his great-great-granddaughter, Fyokla Tolstaya, initiated a project to put his complete works online, free and… Read more »

When The New Yorker was founded, in 1925, by Harold Ross, it was conceived as both a bastion and a parody of cosmopolitan sophistication: As Ross famously put it in… Read more »