Irony is one of those things you kind of know when you see or hear it on screen, but it's much harder to define and put into ...

I love that literary fiction so often resists easy categorization. I love that this “genre” is not, really, a genre at all. And I especially love that, as literary fiction strains against conventions, ...

Over the past century, there have been countless attempts to assemble a definitive list of essential literature. In recent decades, however, the very idea of a literary canon has become a source of ...

P.S. Literary Agency is capping off a month-long celebration of its 20-year anniversary with the announcement of a new scholarship for emerging writers. The agency turned 20 in November, and announced ...

For some people, deep breathing exercises work like a charm. For others, not so much. If you fall into the latter category, you might enjoy the “five-finger breathing” technique, which adds a little ...

Re “The Dogged, Irrational Persistence of Literary Fiction,” by Gerald Howard (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, Oct. 20): Defending the continuing vitality of the literary novel, Mr. Howard points to ...

Between the Trump administration's cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and the gutting of the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, federal ...

Taylor Swift is known for her storytelling and poetic lyricism. Her lyrics reference novels by Daphne du Maurier, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, and more. Swift's newest single, "The Fate of ...

From Jamaica to Jaipur, these literary festivals celebrate the power of the written word and offer you a chance to hear from celebrated and up-and-coming authors—as well as fellow bibliophiles. A ...