As long as there have been fantasy authors, there have been black fantasy authors. Yet, there is a depressingly large subset ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National Museum of African American History and Culture a few ...

A portrait of life at a fast-food restaurant shows that there’s both dignity and drudgery in all kinds of labor.

Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

It wasn’t until 1983 that Guion ‘Guy’ Bluford became the first African-American in space. Frederick Douglass was such a prolific journalist and author, such a tireless orator and statesman ...

The Village Voice reviews Frank Pizzoli’s interview and book review collection, ‘Passionate Outlier: Gay Writers and Allies on Their Work.’ ...

Days of Our Lives head writers Paula Cwikly and Jeanne Marie Ford took over head writing duties from Ron Carlivati back in July 2024. After months of anticipation, the writers’ stories will ...

Check out these picture books, early chapter books and middle-grade books for kids, coming out in spring 2025!

Called the “dean of American post-modernists” and “the most meta of American meta-fictional writers,” Auster ... Lynch won the Booker Prize for fiction on Sunday with what judges called ...

The inaugural winner of the Georgia Writers Association’s John Lewis Writing Grant for fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Lee wields a powerful voice that paints an evocative ...