Far from being a good ol’ boy’s club, the world of crime fiction owes a large part of its success to the women authors who ...

Both are species of cowardice.” The right cared nothing for either Jennifer or Melissa, or for their mothers. Their pain only ...

We've got you covered with our edit of this year's must-reads Our picks are a proper treat—a monstrous game of tit-for-tat played out on the edge of the Nile, a couple of sharped-eyed looks at ...

IT was the moment Lindsey Burrow knew that her rugby hero husband had succumbed to the disease that left him a prisoner in ...

A Punahou English teacher and a veteran literary scholar didn't live to see the promotion of their ambitious historical book.

Author Melissa Connelly's debut novel, What Was Last, tells the story of Marti Farrell in two parts — as a young teen ...

In 1997, for example, Vivian Gornick wrote that love was no longer the primary narrative conflict of contemporary literature.

Based on the true story of Marguerite de La Rocque’s sojourn on an island near modern Quebec, Allegra Goodman’s novel takes ...

After the novelist Geraldine Brooks lost her husband, she postponed confronting the enormous loss—until it became impossible ...