In 1981, Donald Barthelme published “ Challenge ,” a funny and weirdly prescient short story, in The New Yorker. Its premise ...

She Takes the Helm” is a deeply honest, gripping and beautifully written memoir about Jacobs’ decades of commercial fishing.

This month, if you read just one former “Arrested Development” writer’s comic novel about a woman who used to write for TV but has shifted gears, make it “Go Gentle.” Weirdly, two novels that fit that ...

WRITING CREATIVITY AND SOUL. By Sue Monk Kidd. Knopf. 240 pages. $30. Beloved novelist and memoirist Sue Monk Kidd is a native of Georgia who now makes her home in North Carolina — but her literary ...

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John Edgar Wideman, acclaimed author of more than 25 books, has written yet another full-hearted volume. It’s called “Slaveroad,” a genre-defying and clear-eyed meditation on the roiling effects of ...

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