Transworld, an imprint of Penguin Random House, has snapped up Clare Reader Collins' 'stunning' debut in six-figure pre-empt.

Simon & Schuster UK has snapped up Alexandra Benedict’s (also known as A K Benedict) high-concept thriller, Little Red Death.

Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider for your October reading list.

The Black List, Hollywood's go-to index of emerging screenwriters, helped transform the industry, with 54 Oscars to their ...

The opening of Betsy Lerner’s debut novel, “Shred Sisters,” is literally explosive: The adolescent narrator’s glamorous older ...

In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd and the racial reckoning that followed, BIPOC literary agents expressed ...

Jeff VanderMeer's 'Absolution,' a surprise fourth installment to his Southern Reach trilogy, is eco-horror science fiction ...

John Steinbeck beat Sanora Babb to the great American Dust Bowl novel—using her field notes. What do we owe her today?

In this week's Endnotes, we take a look at Lyta Gold's debut Dangerous Fictions (Soft Skull, Oct.). In it, Gold explores ...

The “Oppenheimer” star makes his Broadway debut in Ayad Akhtar’s timely new play about a literary lion who gets assistance ...

A slow-burning international literary star who has won multiple awards in South Korea and Europe, Han is the first Asian ...

Annie Dillard spent a dozen years in the Roanoke Valley, but there's no official commemoration of her time there or of her ...