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Tom out on his quad bike all the waking hours, with old Chip running beside him. Don’t make him go out with you every day, ...

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The International Booker Prize has announced the six books shortlisted for its annual celebration of the best new fiction ...

Heart Lamp is a literary portrait of life on the margins, blending everyday detail with social critique, and filtered through ...

For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?

Dressed in a plain polo shirt, classic washed-out jeans, thick eyeglasses, and a sling laptop bag, Johannes Chua—our ...

PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the shortlist for the prestigious literary prize, which honors novels, short story collections ...

At a prizegiving ceremony held at Saltire House in Glenrothes, Rohen Goodall from Collydean Primary School was announced the ...

Here’s how to read your way through the nation’s capital, according to DC literary historian Kim Roberts. When you think of ...

A publisher based in Broadway is putting together a book of short stories taking place in the Shenandoah Valley, and he’s ...

What It’s About: The latest from The Verge journalist and novelist Nguyen (“New Waves”) follows four Vietnamese American ...