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PEN America announces 2021 Literary Awards longlists

My Top 20 Books of 2020

My favorite book covers of 2020

REST AND BE THANKFUL an intimate, bittersweet view of a pediatric ICU nurse's life

PIN UPS explores race and identity in one woman's desire to explore the great outdoors

Q&A: Kathleen Rooney on crafting believable human and animal narrators in her novel of World War I's Lost Battalion

Q&A with Susanna Clarke on creating the world of PIRANESI

Susanna Clarke returns at last with PIRANESI, a mind-expanding reading experience

National Book Foundation names 2020 "5 Under 35" Recipients

Booker Prize shortlist contains many surprises

Three writers who express a multifaceted creativity through art

Ruth O. Saxton on celebrating women of a certain age in fiction

FRESH WATER FOR FLOWERS a bittersweet, life-affirming story of a cemetery caretaker in rural France

The legacy of inherited PTSD: Reckoning with a traumatic past

Rene Steinke on the profound influence of independent bookstores

TO LAY TO REST OUR GHOSTS explores haunted family relationships with empathy and grace

8 Ways to Revive Your Novel Manuscript

THE LOSS OF ALL LOST THINGS confirms that Amina Gautier is among our most fearless writers

HERE COMES THE SUN goes beneath the Jamaican “paradise” to explore the lives of women struggling against the cultural currents

In my tribe of literary mentors, Gwendolyn Brooks is my godmother

ANOTHER BROOKLYN captures adolescent friendship and coming of age in pristine prose-poetry

THE HUNDRED WELLS OF SALAGA explores two intersecting lives in pre-colonial Ghana

Five essential works of fiction by Black women that you might have missed

NYPL announces finalists for 2020 Young Lions Fiction Award

The Guard: The cultural conflict behind Siobhan Fallon’s THE CONFUSION OF LANGUAGES

Heather Bell Adams: 8 Ways to Revive Your Novel Manuscript

A conversation with Christine Coulson: Behind the scenes at the Met in METROPOLITAN STORIES

DOMINICANA powerfully depicts an immigrant teenage bride's coming of age in 1960s New York City

Bookstore by Bookstore: Indie Bookstores Along the Oregon-California Trail

Memoirist Alexis Paige: On Manuscript Re-entry, Narrative Nonfiction, and Revisiting Craft Basics

Searching for Authenticity: The Story Behind LOST IN OAXACA

A conversation with Barbara Linn Probst about QUEEN OF THE OWLS and the influence of Georgia O'Keeffe

THE OLD DRIFT adds two prestigious awards to its long list of honors

Five Worthwhile Books You May Have Missed (Part 4 in a series)

Five Worthwhile Books You May Have Missed (Part 3 in a series)

Five Worthwhile Books You May Have Missed (Part 2 in a series)

Five Worthwhile Books You May Have Missed (Part 1 in a series)

SUBDUCTION a lyrical and atmospheric debut

TO THE BONE a heartfelt collection about being a mother, daughter, and immigrant

PERFECT TUNES is "an intoxicating blend of music, love, and family"

Vanessa Hua's reissued debut a baker's dozen of bittersweet stories

Angie Kim and Lisa Gornick in conversation: On structural options, sources of inspiration, and understanding their characters

Elizabeth Poliner: How mapping the stories of Alice Munro made me a better writer

THE BOOK OF UNKNOWN AMERICANS gives powerful voice to Mexicans living in the U.S.

February Fiction Preview: Jen, Offill, and Yuknavitch return; Dare and Schaitkin make their debut

January Books of Note: Six compelling new voices and one beloved storyteller