Spain struggles to honor the legacy of Cervantes.

On the subversive fiction of East German writer Wolfgang Hilbig

James Baldwin's letters to his brother

The author's bid against being forgotten.

Translating Southeaster by Haroldo Conti.

Two books by Roxane Gay reflect on the state of feminism.

A lost story shows the young writer struggling in Joyce's shadow

Steven Moore's The Novel: An Alternative History (1600-1800)

Yu Hua's Boy in the Twilight.

A nominee for the National Book Award.

On Italo Calvino’s letters, 1941–1985.

Muriel Rukeyser's recently uncovered novel tells the story of a young woman coming of age—politically, sexually, intellectually—in a country at war.

The novel House of Earth shows Woody Guthrie in a different light, exiled from the Dust Bowl but dreaming of it still.

In Peter Stamm's novels, life is more livable when you stop expecting miracles, and desire succumbs to reality.

On American fiction's racial landscape.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses her new novel, Americanah—a love story that delves into the complexities of race with humor and empathy.

Kiese Laymon's Novel Explores the Messy Complexity of Race in America

Fitzgerald's novel is overrated, but the new film version deserves more credit than it has received.

Paul Goodman was thinking globally and acting locally before it became a slogan.

How do we separate David Foster Wallace the person from DFW the icon?

Writers of the Gilded Age unsettled the comfortable relations between failure and poverty, wealth and success.