Here are just some of the personas inhabited by the artist-provocateur X in Catherine Lacey’s blockbuster novel “Biography of X”: a Montana pool hustler named Dorothy Eagle; the Midwestern folk singer ...

Welcome to another America: split between a prosperous, feminist (though still sexist) north and a theocratic south isolated from the world for the past half century by a giant wall. In this country, ...

Each week in Bookends, two writers take on questions about the world of books. This week, Thomas Mallon and Adam Kirsch discuss whether knowing about an author’s life deepens or detracts from the ...

The 2019 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters were awarded in the book categories of fiction, history, biography poetry, general nonfiction, and criticism on Monday afternoon at the Columbia University School ...

For literature, 1984 was a very good year. Not in the 1922 league (after The Waste Land and Ulysses, nothing was the same), but still significant. The Booker Prize jury played safe with the small and ...