Amal El-Mohtar is the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist. She is a Hugo Award-winning writer and the co-author, with Max Gladstone, of “This Is How You Lose the Time War.” ...

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The books of Brian Castro are postmodern pantomimes that mug the dictates of genre, without ever quite escaping them.

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Nisga'a writer Jordan Abel has won the Governor General's Literary Awards for fiction for his novel Empty Spaces. Empty ...

In this story, Jia seeks to express that within the cyclical nature of history, even in times of war and chaos like the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (770-221 BC), people are also in ...

On their book that explores how societies worldwide responded to plague pandemics from Constantinople in the sixth century to ...

Author Lucy Foley chats about her new book "The Midnight Feast", her idols of crime fiction, reformulating the thriller novel ...

Stephen King, the master of horror and suspense, has a secret: he loves contemporary fiction that strays from his signature shadowy realms. This article explores King's unexpected book recommendations ...

Self-help books can be an accessible starting point of one’s reading journey, and an introduction to other forms of writing and cultures.

It is important, however, to remember that literature encourages the emergence of new ideas. To boil it down to tropes is to ...

Katharine McGee, the bestselling author of the American Royals series, turns back the clock to 19th-century Europe in her new ...