Rachel Kushner was the girl who spent her teens sneaking onto the backs of motorcycles in California. Today, a couple of decades later, she's the... More >>

It's March, but a zigzag of skiers still winds its way down Corkscrew, Aspen Mountain's double-black-diamond run. This is the view from Justice... More >>

King of Cuba By Cristina García, May 21 Set partially in modern Havana, García's sixth novel offers a profane, rollicking sendup... More >>

No exaggeration: I coughed hot soup out of my nose while reading the new hardbound volume of deadpan dadaist Michael Kupperman’s Tales... More >>

What happens when F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson? Welcome to Kristopher Jansma's debut novel, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, a... More >>

“Authors are just notoriously difficult,” says the publicity director in Jessica Francis Kane’s story “How to Become a... More >>

Chief among the dark oddities of life in 18th- and 19th-century London is that the city, which produced so many dead, was itself forever in want... More >>

David Shields did it, again. He killed the novel. But it's less painful than it sounds. In How Literature Saves My Life, his eleventh book and... More >>

In an age when the price of a movie ticket can get you three hours of hang-time in Middle Earth, fantasy worlds aren’t exactly at a... More >>

Jump right into the New Year by celebrating the new issue of New York-based literary magazine n+1 at McNally Jackson on January 3. Issue number... More >>

If the book is in crisis, we didn't notice on our end. 2012 saw a ton of new offerings. Our scribes select a batch of the ones they liked... More >>

If there's a ghost fifth member of the Smiths, it might be Tony Fletcher. The 48-year-old British author, who's written biographies about Keith... More >>

It's not an insult to the work of Annemarie Schwarzenbach that many readers, in the decades since her death in 1942, have found her writing not... More >>

On Tuesday, December 4 at 7 p.m., Cobble Hill's BookCourt (this year's Best Of New York winner for best bookstore) will host a panel discussion... More >>

Take away the gift giving, the cheesy music, the elaborate window displays, and a few fleeting days off from work, and what do the holidays leave... More >>

A laugh-out-loud apocalypse, a daft two-against-the-world love story, and a slashing yet humane science-fiction satire of our faith in corporate... More >>

Jami Attenberg’s latest novel, The Middlesteins, travels through the life of Edie Middlestein, a once portly child, now obese adult, thrown... More >>

British Palestinian writer Selma Dabbagh's debut novel Out of It tells the story of Rashid and Iman, twins from Gaza. While Gaza is being bombed,... More >>

James Wolcott dropped out of college and left Maryland in 1972 with eyes full of literary dreams and a letter of recommendation from Norman... More >>