Octavia E. Butler's Kindred remains a touchstone of speculative fiction for its innovative use of time travel to reckon with slavery in the antebellum South.

McBride recounts a once-in-a-lifetime lunch meeting with one of his longtime literary heroes, Kurt Vonnegut.

The state of Ohio passed legislation to honor Lorain-native Morrison, designating her birthday "Toni Morrison Day."

Children have been naughty for centuries—if you want proof, check out this recently digitized medieval manuscript from the British Library.

To combat feelings of hopelessness, Lauren Groff partnered with Greenpeace on a new campaign to get artists to respond creatively to climate change.

Memory is at the forefront as Haruki Murakami discusses his new story, "With the Beatles," with Deborah Treisman.

Who is the true heroine of Jane Austen's Emma?

Almost 90 years after it was written, Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay is getting a chance to reach wider audiences thanks to Penguin Classics.

Once upon a time, Dorothy Parker was fired from her post as theater critic for Vanity Fair for harsh reviews that upset the magazine's advertisers.

Award-winning poet Jericho Brown discusses how the ongoing push and pull of the South continue to fuel his powerful work.

Authors Tomi Adeyemi, Akwaeke Emezi, Elizabeth Acevedo, Angie Thomas, and Nic Stone joined forces to discuss the changing tides in young adult fiction.

N.K. Jemisin speaks to Raffi Khatchadourian about writing herself into the stories she wanted to read, as well as what the future holds for her.

In Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid used her own experience as a babysitter to explore the transactional relationship that exists when caring for someone's child.

Jaime Fuller takes a closer look at one of Willa Cather's lesser-known novels, A Lost Lady, whose film adaptation was a sore spot for the author.

For the first time in more than a century, a new edition of George Eliot's translation of Spinoza's magnum opus, Ethics, will be made available.

"Ida B. Wells was part of a much larger network of black women journalists who dared to wield their pens in the names of truth and justice."

"The unfinished work is no less real, or necessary, or powerful than the book," Broom says in a recent Whiting Foundation speech.