Books and Literature

James Salter on Writing, Women, and Being Not-Quite-Famous

SCISSOR SISTER

Lucinda Rosenfeld discusses her new novel

Our Favorite Books of 2012

Voice writers offer their picks from the year

DEAD MAN READING

The end is coming, and Colson 
Whitehead will rescue you

Marcus Samuelsson Reads His Memoir Yes, Chef

The story tells how the Red Rooster Harlem chef came to New York

Jonathan Franzen Thinks E-books Are Evil

Today in "Traditionalists Hating Technology," local literary darling Jonathan Franzen, author of the popular novels Freedom and The Corrections, has come out in opposition of e-books. Speaking at the Hay Festival in Cartagena, Colombia, Franzen told reporters that he believes the impermanence of the ... More >>

Thank God It's Over!: New York NaNoWriMo Participants Speak On Their Ambitious Writing Endeavors

They have overdosed on coffee, written on layovers in Canada, traveled from the Netherlands, put pen to pad on a packed tram headed to Roosevelt Island, and made time for writing even after dealing with a parent's heart attack. They're New York City's NaNoWriMo participants, and no, they didn't do ... More >>

BIG DRAW

Call it the indie Comic-Con

Granta Magazine With Julie Otsuka

NO STRINGS ATTACHED

Chester Brown draws his sex life

The Ten Best Musician/Comic Artist Friendships

Grant Morrison in the video for My Chemical Romance's "Sing" Grant Morrison is a U.K. comic book writer known for known for highly singular--or insane, if you prefer, in a good way--takes on established mainstream properties like X-Men and Doom Patrol as well as his own, peyotesque original series ... More >>

The Comics Issue: If Cartoons Are So Big, Why Don't They Pay?

Drawn and nickled and dimed

LIT SQUAD

Jennifer Egan discusses her rock ’n’ roll novel

Spring Arts Guide: 10 Semi-Erudite Choices for Spring Literature

Rimbaud, meet Betty White. Plus David Foster Wallace, Tayari Jones, and other spring books picks.

EAT, PRAY, LAUGH

One man's search for his funnybone

Defending the "Lost Art of Shutting Up"

The original memoirist, St. Augustine. ​Sometimes, the most boring people are the most effusive. The person who traps you on the other side of their monologue at a party; the person shouting into their cellphone on the bus. The constant tweeter. The teenager with 5,000 Facebook photos of her a ... More >>

Summer Guide: Pulitzer Winner Jonathan Weiner Follows the Search for Immortality

Long for This World examines the scientific battle against aging

Sydney Schanberg Returns to the Killing Fields

First Action Comics, Sold for Record $1 Million, on Display this Week in New York

​Comic book trading website ComicConnect.com posted a rare first edition Superman comic book on their site this week, and within one minute the special copy sold for $1 million. Someone really wanted that damn comic book. Vincent Zurzolo and Stephen Fishler, co-founders of the website, always ... More >>

The Decade's Best Books

Join us as we leaf through the finest the publishing world had to offer

Fall Guide: George Packer Chronicles a Turbulent 21st Century

Lit Seen: Momus, Joe Pernice, and Nick Cave Trade Guitar Picks for Pens

On the improbable return of the rock-star novel

STRIP SHOW

International stars of the graphic novel tell all

SHORT AND SWEET

Loving the art of brevity

Bloggers Vs. an Author: No One Wins

Thoughts on book tours, literary self-promotion, and one published writer's blog spat

LITERARY COCKTAIL

Five graphic novelists you should know

The Monsters of Templeton

PASSAGE TO INDIA

Author Jhumpa Lahiri dazzles again

THE ART OF BREVITY

Can you sum up your life in six words?

Meet the East Village "It" Couple of Young-Adult Lit

Living large in Y.A.

The Best of 2007

Voice writers pick their favorite 20 books of the year

Norman Mailer, 1923-2007

He changed American journalism and letters, and co-founded The Village Voice

America's Next Top Supernovel

Granta once again takes bets on the nation's young literary talent

Too Hot to Handle

For young writers, the dangers of shining too brightly, too early

The New Gay Fiction

After years of neglect from the mainstream, queer lit undergoes a renaissance

VLS Bestsellers

Top Shelf 2005

Our 25 favorite books of the year—from teen sex diseases and Aztec slaughterhouses to Kiss riffs and juvenile tambourinists

VLS Bestsellers List

Their Back Pages

Also by this Author: Remember when Martin Amis was writing about Space Invaders?

Books

VLS Bestsellers List

Table Talk

A Tale of Two Fannys

In Edmund White's latest, Fanny Trollope discovers America, with Fanny Wright's help

Fable Scraps

Daniel Mason Picks Up the Pieces and Writes a Novel

Fairy Tale Suicide

Pretty Persuasion

Going for the Girl Market

For Whom the Bellow Tolls

The Brainy Bunch

World War Seuss

Hide and Speak