Influential novelists are imagining what women’s lives might look like without the demands of partners and children.

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When words fail them, creative writers imagine entirely new ones. Author Patti Callahan Henry explains fake languages, ...

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Patricia Sánchez and Carmen Tafolla preview the April 3 Campoy-Ada awards for Spanish-language and bilingual children's literature.

Casten Carlberg and other supporters of automated translation argue it isn’t meant to replace translators and that instead, ...

LONDON (AP) — American authors Elizabeth Strout and Miranda July are among finalists announced Wednesday for the Women’s ...

A newly released novel is illuminating a little known chapter of Central Asian history during the Soviet era. It focuses on ...

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Natasha Brown’s 2021 debut ‘Assembly’ was met with critical acclaim,  shortlisted for several awards including the Folio ...

A sprawling Yiddish-language epic looks back on the lost world of Jewish life in the shtetls of early 20th-century Europe.

Our traveling book club makes its 19th stop! On the docket: novels about the Harlem Renaissance & a secret affair, growing up ...