Was this what the novelists meant by ennui? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The poor had come lean and hungry out of the terrible winter that followed the World’s Fair,” wrote novelist Robert Herrick in The Web of Life. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Hairwoman: “This is Hawthorne, one of the greatest American novelists! He didn’t do anything by accident—he was a genius.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The novelist would later win the Nobel Prize, but he was already famous for his classic Southern epics like The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She did her graduate work at NYU, and for three weeks the four of us stayed in the city and socialized with her former teachers and classmates—novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, poets. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This was what the novelists meant by suffering. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I think she was surprised. And perhaps her feelings were hurt. She certainly didn’t express herself very well. Shocking, really, that a romance novelist could be so inept at the language of the heart.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The elderly novelist, tall and stooped, was genuinely glad for news of Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Oft cited on this subject of attention is William James, a philosopher and physician at the end of the nineteenth century, and the brother of novelist Henry James. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

National defense and global prestige, of course, were the two concerns that had moved the reverie of space travel from the purview of novelists and eccentrics to the country’s number-one priority. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In my bedroom were books by poets and novelists—books that I loved—in which male writers published feelings the men in my family never revealed or acknowledged in words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Showing his sketches to a major graphic novelist felt like a step. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Doreen lounged on my bed in a peach silk dressing gown, filing her long, nicotine-yellow nails with an emery board, while I typed up the draft of an interview with a best-selling novelist. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He thought about a quote from the novelist E. M. Forster: “If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was arguably more like a novelist than a composer in this respect, people falling for his music as they would a newly discovered secret passion. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A modern novelist could no more write characters and plots than a modern composer could a Mozart symphony. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Four painters, four poets and four novelists. You’re one of the novelists.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The novelist Jim Harrison once wrote of dancing for five hours in Mexico with “a maiden who resembled a beige bowling ball.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem these fifty-nine years has been this: how can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I explained that it was entirely my fault the rehearsals fell apart, because halfway through I had decided to become a novelist. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There were bound volumes of the Banker’s Journal and the Stockbroker’s Gazette, and complete sets of the Victorian novelists, never opened. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The novelist Charles Dickens felt Malthus depicted poor people as less than human; in novels such as Oliver Twist, he sought to remedy that, making poor people well-rounded main characters. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was all distilled for me in a quote I once read from the novelist Saul Bellow. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She wanted to be a novelist, so she spent high school working to save enough money for a college with a good creative-writing program. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She kept her favorite cards, including a note from historical novelist Herman Wouk. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Most important, Tawantinsuyu “managed to eradicate hunger,” the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa noted. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Call it no more the White City on the Lake,” wrote Sir Walter Besant, the English historian and novelist, in Cosmopolitan, “it is Dreamland.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Writers and intellectuals, such as the world-famous novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose books depicted life in Soviet prison camps or gulags, were lucky by comparison—he merely found himself permanently ejected from his homeland in 1974. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In New York, he had joined several socialist groups, edited newspapers, recruited students, and befriended the novelist and social activist Theodore Dreiser. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I learned how a popular novelist like Dickens, writing for a middle-class audience, makes his readers aware of their ability to effect social reform. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Goebbels himself—a failed novelist and playwright earlier in life—had taken to reviewing the scripts of nearly all films personally, using a green pencil to strike out or rewrite offending lines or scenes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But Wilfrid Sheed, an American novelist and essayist, penned a comment just before the match ended that many would later regard as prescient. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was from New York by way of Chicago, and was a rising new novelist. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He liked to talk about Graham Greene, the British novelist, and his novel on Haiti, The Comedians, which narrated the story of the Duvaliers and their secret police. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

H. G. Wells, the novelist, was no stranger to eugenics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Of course you are. This is a city of novelists. What’s it about?” she said, sitting up in the booth seat. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa's friend, the novelist who lives above the tavern. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“No Black person,” wrote the novelist James Baldwin, “will ever believe that George Jackson died the way they tell us he did.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A month later, Martin called and informed me I was going to be a published novelist. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In 1951, long before James Watson would become a household name around the world, the novelist Doris Lessing took a three-hour walk with the young Watson, whom she knew through a friend of a friend. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Poet and novelist Caoilinn Hughes wrote in Granta last year that “when poets turn their hands to prose, those hands might well belong to Midas.” Review | A violent police raid leads to a casualty — and a meditation on racism in America 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

So when I’m really starting to go nuts, I recall a quote from the late novelist Philip Roth’s book “The Dying Animal”: Amid the pandemic, an adventure addict finds solace in imagination 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

The novelist Irvine Welsh derided the Dylan selection as an “ill-conceived nostalgia award.” Why Bob Dylan’s Impact Is Bigger Than His Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

His father was a Spitfire pilot in the South African Air Force and his mother was a cousin of the novelist Alan Paton. Hayden Griffin obituary 2013-04-01T15:43:35Z

The novelist Jonathan Lethem admitted in a telephone interview to “an instinctive, protective scorn” of any effort to revisit Watchmen. DC Comics Plans Prequels to Watchmen Series 2012-02-01T11:00:00Z

Dignity … Bengali literature loves the delta Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Every novelist finds it difficult to write about spatial arrangements. Philip Hensher: The importance of place in fiction 2013-05-17T15:00:02Z

He was a keen visual artist, a storyteller, playwright, novelist, news reporter, radio DJ, a verse and prose writer and an enthusiastic walker. Woody Guthrie: a century of protest 2012-07-13T21:54:03Z

She ended up with over 300 names, a who’s-who of 19th-century icons: composers like Rossini, Liszt and Schumann; novelists like George Sand, Victor Hugo and Ivan Turgenev, her lover; Giuseppe Mazzini and Napoleon III. A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

As Leader points out, Bellow was a highly autobiographical novelist, and in the early part of the biography he connects nearly every real-life incident to its reference in Bellow’s fiction — unpublished and published. A comprehensive study of a Nobel laureate 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Where does a Christian novelist get his ideas? Frederick Buechner, Novelist With a Religious Slant, Dies at 96 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

Equally deserving of a place alongside these architects of modern television is Charlaine Harris – perhaps an odd choice, considering the fact that the longtime novelist has never directly gotten her hands in the TV game. How True Blood's supernatural hedonism changed genre television 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

One night during the same voyage the novelist found himself conspicuous for not having followed English etiquette. Laurence Scott: rereading Maurice by EM Forster 2013-07-05T10:00:01Z

Some novelists might take umbrage at the idea that they aren’t as in love with language as poets are; in the best prose fiction, language is both functional and poetic, peg and panpipe. Kate Tempest’s Transformations 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

This is a patient — he is among the most indelible American novelists of the last hundred years — you wish to keep alive. Books of The Times: ‘The River Swimmer,’ Two Novellas by Jim Harrison 2013-01-15T19:55:50Z

I am a former psychoanalyst, working with people who suffered serious trauma, and am now a full-time novelist. 'My granddaughter loses sleep over terrorism': how children respond to global events 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Since Wayne is a veteran writer, and not an M.F.A. student or a debut novelist, he knows that we know what he’s doing in these opening pages. This Novel Is Set in a ’90s M.F.A. Program. The Author Is Aware of Your Concerns. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Murakami is best known for his surrealist fiction and is Japan’s top-selling novelist; Adonis writes poetry, particularly long form, and has lived in exile for decades, mostly in Beirut and Paris. Will Don DeLillo win the Nobel Prize in literature? 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

The health of a genre depends, of course, on its ability to attract gifted new writers, and the past year has seen the emergence of several talented first-time novelists. Analysis | Just in time for Halloween, the best horror fiction of the year 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

If Llosa had written this as a "sentimental" novelist not a "naive" one, how much less enjoyable it might have turned out to be. Deadlines can give life to creative writing 2011-02-28T10:43:22Z

But the novelist, like the activist, is also a citizen of the world and bears the responsibility of this citizenship. Ahdaf Soueif: In times of crisis, fiction has to take a back seat 2012-08-17T15:00:01Z

At age 25 and married to a scholar, she fell in love with her husband’s student and left him and their 3-year-old daughter, saying she would be a novelist. Japan’s outspoken nun and author Jakucho Setouchi dies at 99 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

If the great American narrative is success, why are so many of the great American novelists obsessed with failure? 'The Art of Fielding': Win, lose, improvise 2011-09-21T22:59:04Z

Norman Mailer was, well, Norman Mailer: novelist, public intellectual, brawling social provocateur. Books of The Times: Norris Church Mailer?s New Memoir, ?Ticket to the Circus? 2010-04-06T23:29:00Z

Before she became a full-time novelist Kushner worked as a writer and editor on various New York art magazines. Rachel Kushner: 'I know what it feels like to crash a motorcycle at 140mph' 2013-06-08T23:05:01Z

Bolaño, a Chilean novelist who died in 2003 at a very young but also very old fifty, was obviously a fan of the French surrealist poets and their often bizarre followers. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z

The filmmaker or novelist, on the other hand, will be tempted to visually portray or physically describe just those things whose very nature is to exceed our capacity to depict them. Inventing Climate-Change Literature 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

As a novelist, I am interested in exploring characters for whom the networks of the cortex are a real, charged presence. Charles Fernyhough: Is memory just a leaky reconstruction? 2013-04-26T17:50:01Z

“Peacock makes other environmentalists look like they are playing in an upper-class bridge tournament,” said the novelist Jim Harrison. The real Grizzly Man: No one knows brown bears like Vietnam vet, monkey-wrencher, wild man Doug Peacock 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

The vein that successfully keeps one focused on Bellow, and enchanted, is the novelist’s excerpted prose. Was Saul Bellow a Man or a Jerk? Both, a Monumental Biography Concludes 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Reading all these first-time authors you could see the representative habits and ambitions of the would-be literary novelist, and see, sometimes all too clearly, the influences of established literary fiction. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z

At the end of March, the Italian novelist Francesca Melandri published a letter in The Guardian predicting what Britons would go through in the weeks to come. A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

And it was reported last week that Fox has picked up a 10-part supernatural crime drama series, "Houdini and Doyle," revolving around the friendship between the illusionist and "Sherlock Holmes" novelist Arthur Conan Doyle. Once thought lost, Harry Houdini's 'Grim Game' film reappears 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

The Russian novelists, oddly, those with the biggest reputations for psychological and historical realism, quite often took to the chat of animals in order to strike for imaginative gold. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z

Austen, the beloved novelist, was born on Dec. 16, 1775, in Hampshire, England. Jane Austen gets her own day (Dec. 16) 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

His intoxicating call to embrace liberation and to live up to our highest aspirations has inspired generations of novelists, playwrights and philosophers, to say nothing of countless undergraduates. Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

He poured scorn upon black protest writers and certain novelists, including Richard Wright, for insisting on narratives of victimhood and marginalization. Review: Albert Murray’s Symphonic Elegance Sings in a New Anthology 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

In 1951, Smith, a Black journalist and novelist from Philadelphia, joined the celebrated cadre of African American expatriates who made France their home in the mid-20th century. A Black Writer Found Tolerance in France, and a Different Racism 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

David is that ubiquitous fictional figure, a failing novelist. A New Thriller Imagines a Revolt Against the Corporate Order 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

Voted into the academy's core membership were the novelist Ward Just, known for his stories set in Washington, D.C.; the influential minimalist artist Richard Tuttle and the acclaimed painter and printmaker Terry Winters. AP NewsBreak: Dylan voted into elite arts academy 2013-03-12T20:16:12Z

And checking into the hotel is Gere as the charmingly mysterious Guy, a handsome American who may or may not be a budding novelist. For 'Exotic Marigold Hotel' sequel, checking back in was an easy process 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Fleming had served in British naval intelligence during World War II and began his career as a novelist while living in Jamaica. Latest James Bond scribe says Idris Elba 'too street' to play 007 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

I’m a fairly standard working novelist, in that I publish about a novel a year. John Scalzi on writing great big books 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

It was first recorded by the 19th-century novelist and art critic Stendhal in Florence, and so scientists are to monitor the vital signs of tourists in Florence after they see works of art. Does great art make you ill? 2010-08-02T15:16:00Z

Castle almost got his chance when he bought the rights to novelist Ira Levin's "Rosemary's Baby." Director William Castle, king of the gimmick, gets a retrospective 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

The novelist David Ebershoff had been working as an editor at Random House two years when his first book, “The Danish Girl,” was published in 2000. Your Book Editor Just Snagged Your Spot on the Best-Seller List 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

The British novelist has been vocal in her criticism of sexism in the literary world, and yesterday also hit out at the Orange prize, which is limited to only women novelists. AS Byatt says women who write intellectual books seen as unnatural 2010-08-20T18:37:00Z

Cruise’s almost evangelical embrace of his faith — a belief system developed by a sci-fi novelist around the postulation of a soullike “thetan” that can neither be seen nor measured — is kind of embarrassing. Yeah, so I dig Tom Cruise, and ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ might make my year

The attempted public assassination of a novelist in America may have scarcely been imagined at the group’s founding in 1922, which is documented in an exhibition on view at the historical society through Oct. At PEN America, a Complicated Centennial for Free Speech 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

In a 1792 diary entry, the novelist Frances Burney noted her companions’ indignation at the antics of an apparent madwoman who wandered the gallery, clutching a nosegay and mumbling. For a Shakespeare Anniversary, an Online Re-Creation of a 1796 Show 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

Actually, there is so much Gatiss looming on TV, especially on BBC4, that by November viewers may well be sick of the Sedgefield-born novelist, actor, screenwriter and League of Gentlemen star. Mark Gatiss: Rocket man 2010-10-11T20:30:00Z

“Every part of writing a novel is daunting, but very few novelists deal with sex very well,” he wrote in an email. Authors of Fiction Confront a Problem: How to Write About Sex 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

Wilson writes: "Turgenev is a master of language, he is interested in words in a way that the other great 19th-century Russian novelists – with the exception of Gogol – are not." A brief survey of the short story part 50: Ivan Turgenev 2013-06-21T13:42:13Z

The novelist and musician James McBride was recently teaching six eager but distractible children to play keyboards in the basement of a modest church in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn. Godfather of Soul Inspires the Spirit of James McBride to Write a Biography 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

Divergent, directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve in laying out the boundaries of novelist Veronica Roth’s dystopia: six segregated but ostensibly harmonious regions defined by their inhabitants’ skills. REVIEW: There's Nothing Urgent About "Insurgent" 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

When the pin reappeared, the novelist in me wanted to whoop but the reader wanted to weep. ‘Say Nothing’ — Part History, Part True Crime — Illuminates the Bitter Conflict in Northern Ireland 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

This Sri Lankan novelist has just won the prestigious Commonwealth Book Prize. 16 top entertainment picks for June 17-23, 2012 2012-06-16T00:23:00Z

There is a measure of celebration in her arrival as a novelist. Debut novel by Lisa Howorth is a Southern mosaic 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

But in the hands of a skilled novelist or essayist like Solnit — whose books include “Men Explain Things to Me” and “The Mother of All Questions” — a biography becomes something else entirely. Review | Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

It's an attitude that cuts little ice with novelist Edmund White, 72. From Yoko Ono to Leonard Cohen ? the old masters finding new inspiration 2012-02-10T19:24:18Z

Controversy erupted as writers from across Latin America, including some of the region’s most prominent novelists, reacted vehemently, applauding or denouncing the publisher’s decision, as it was described by Sanín. A Writer’s Post and its Consequences Divide Latin American Literary Circles 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

Fortunately, Ms. Bialosky, a novelist, poet and editor, keeps several brushes in reserve in her Upper West Side apartment. The Artistry in Jill Bialosky’s Pastry Brush 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

Huston's recent work includes roles in American Hustle and playing novelist Jack Kerouac in Kill Your Darlings. Huston set to star in Ben-Hur remake 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Italian crime novelists are not alone in exploring their country's problems via their genre, but the inconclusive outcomes of Camilleri's books reflect a climate where, he shrugs "cases are seldom solved". TV highlights 27 December 2010-12-20T03:35:00Z

The novelist Isaac Asimov once defined science fiction as art contending with “something that is not yet so.” Cyborgs Onstage, Robots in the Wings 2010-12-30T23:58:33Z

No wonder American literary novelists have found it easier just to bow out of the whole "Way We Live Now" rat race, especially when the designated enemy was television. How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z

Other real people flit through the novel, including Maugham’s nephew Robin, also a novelist, and the traitors Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and Kim Philby. Philip Kerr’s ‘The Other Side of Silence’: an atmospheric tale of espionage 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

Nina Bawden proved herself to be truly extraordinary, not only as a top-class novelist but also as a woman with moral courage who risked everything to win justice. Bawden tribute by East End author 2012-08-23T08:31:09Z

Though he tries to be courteous and considerate, his presence starts to annoy Joey, who sleeps on the bunk below, and Kate, a novelist whose daily writing routine is disrupted by Ben’s chatty, needy presence. 'Love Is Strange’ Stars John Lithgow and Alfred Molina 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

And in case readers don't get the point being made, he adds: "Franzen is a member of another perennially threatened species, the American literary novelist." A serious man 2010-08-14T23:06:00Z

Mr. Berger fell into that category of novelists whose work is admired by critics, devoured by devoted readers and even assigned in modern American literature classes but who owe much of their popularity to Hollywood. Thomas Berger, ‘Little Big Man’ Author, Is Dead at 89 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

Many were Jewish and many were world-renowned figures in the arts, most notably composer Arnold Schoenberg, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Thomas Mann, stage and film impresario Max Reinhardt, playwright Bertolt Brecht and screen legend Marlene Dietrich. Review | Turning a spotlight on the Hollywood doyenne who gave refuge to artists fleeing Hitler 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

Since the success of “Big Little Lies,” the novelist has enjoyed the luxury of casting as she writes, creating characters with specific actors in mind. Liane Moriarty writes women’s fiction. Have a problem with that? She doesn’t. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Authors checked in too, including the western novelist Zane Grey and Margaret Mitchell. At an Arizona Ranch, Desert Beauty with a Side of Border Politics 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

The exception to the rule is, apparently, the forthcoming doc about the life of reclusive The Catcher in the Rye novelist J.D. Please Do Not Talk During This Movie… Or Ever 2013-08-23T15:08:35Z

Sweeney’s effectiveness as a novelist stems from her protean sympathy, her ability to move among these characters and capture each one’s feelings without judgment. Review | ‘Good Company,’ Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s follow-up to ‘The Nest,’ is a sweeter novel with higher stakes 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

Also premiering in the main competition Thursday was "Sleeping Beauty," the first feature by Australian novelist Julia Leigh. Dark drama about school killing spree jolts Cannes 2011-05-12T12:30:49Z

Which writers — novelists, playwrights, critics, journalists, poets — do you admire most? Anne de Courcy: By the Book 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

But the buzz in the air put me in mind of something the novelist Walter Kirn said not long ago, about why big cities are still vital for young writers. A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan 2012-12-14T17:13:34Z

For a novelist, the modern world, all this stuff is so cool. Harlan Coben on why even bestselling authors get those self-loathing writer blues 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Philip Roth, the novelist, said that when writing, he can get to a point when he is not creating, he is just remembering his character’s memories. A ‘Menagerie’ That Fulfills a London Dream 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

We bemoaned the fact that we were actors and not novelists, since both of us could fill books with the stories we traded in the course of a single hour. Learning 'Lear': A King's Gotta Eat 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

That automatically makes them attractive, from the novelist's point of view, as part of the job of the novel is to be interested in the new: there's a reason it's not called the oldvel. Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z

Photograph: Eric Thayer/Reuters Put down your books, all of you out there who have been trying, day after day, week after week, to pin down who the greatest living American novelist is. Philip Roth is greatest US writer: 7.7 out of 10 readers agree 2013-02-27T17:00:05Z

Mr. Dominik, who wrote “Killing Them Softly,” carefully transfers the novelist’s pungent idiom to the screen. Movie Review: ‘Killing Them Softly,’ With Brad Pitt, From Andrew Dominik 2012-11-29T16:13:01Z

Of the novelists Jean Rhys in England and Henry Roth in the US, whom many thought dead, being found in rural retreats and brought back into print. Searching for Sugar Man – review 2012-07-28T23:05:46Z

As the novelist, Herbert Lom, almost invariably cast as a menacing continental type in British films of the ’50s, here plays the kind of brooding romantic lead that might have been created for James Mason. DVDs: Class Alliances and Ambition in Thatcher Time 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z

In trying to imagine the experience of combat, the novelist chooses to focus on physical detail and creates a protagonist who substitutes physical observation for emotional response. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-06-22T21:55:12Z

In fact, “Marshlands” was written by the French novelist and journalist Gide, whose career extended from the late 19th century to his death in 1951. Experimental Literature That Tests Family Bonds and Routines 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

On the eve of his 50th birthday and a former lover’s wedding, a mediocre novelist takes refuge in literary invitations that enable him to travel around the world. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

This is some sort of a novel, from some sort of a novelist. Nostalgia by Jonathan Buckley – review 2013-03-15T18:34:01Z

As Rankin noted in his DW interview, crime novelists in the 19th century were very much of this class. The class pyramid of British literature 2010-03-22T12:01:00Z

In this delicate portrait, Lee takes on the challenge of an elusive late-bloomer — the great novelist and biographer who published her first book at 58 and became famous at 80. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

In this less pressured environment science fiction became, in the opinion of the English novelist J.G. The Hero’s Journey: The idea you never knew had shaped “Star Wars” 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z

A number of pictures feature Monk's House, the Sussex retreat of novelist Virginia Woolf. Rocker's art 2011-06-17T08:11:00Z

Few contemporary American or British novelists have had as much cultural impact over the past four decades as Anne Rice. Lestat returns: In her new novel, Anne Rice revives a much-loved vampire

Though twice a nominee for Britain’s Booker Prize, McCarthy isn’t a mainstream novelist. Review | Tom McCarthy’s ‘The Making of Incarnation’ is a mind-bending international caper 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

"I put it you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists," McEwan said. I am an English writer, not a British one, Ian McEwan tells Alex Salmond 2012-08-22T21:40:25Z

"Sleeping Beauty," the elegantly creepy debut film from Australian novelist Julia Leigh, is no fairy tale; it's designed to leave audiences uncomfortable. 'Sleeping Beauty': Once upon a twisted time 2011-12-08T21:40:04Z

In addition to printed matter, look for literary accouterments, such as a writing table created for Nancy Mitford, the British novelist, by the Canadian-born artist Paul P. A Guide to the 2014 Whitney Museum Biennial 2014-02-27T23:29:47Z

In words and moments like this, it’s clear that Pizzolotto still thinks like a novelist, which is what he was before HBO first bought his idea for “True Detective” and made him a showrunner. Review | Why does HBO still believe in the potential of ‘True Detective’? Search me. 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

Two hundred years after Austen’s death, we asked Straub, who owns a bookstore in New York, to reflect on the British novelist’s timeless popularity. Perspective | Is it too late to read your first Jane Austen novel? 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

The American novelist, who died last year at the age of 91, was regularly described as "reclusive". Salinger: a burger-lover in the rye 2011-01-27T23:00:01Z

Inspired by Thomas Hardy's novel "Far From the Madding Crowd," "Tamara Drewe" tells an offbeat tale of the title character's hometown, a quiet village where a best-selling novelist runs a writer's retreat. Frears pokes Hollywood for detaining Cannes star 2010-05-18T16:21:00Z

The great Philip Roth, and I call him that because he's the greatest, for me, American novelist — he's thinking about an actor losing his talent. Al Pacino faces actors' nightmares in Philip Roth's 'The Humbling' 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

It took Miller, who is the fourth debut novelist to win the prize, 10 years to write The Song of Achilles. Orange prize for fiction 2012 goes to Madeline Miller 2012-05-30T18:12:31Z

But he said he was more drawn to the work of novelists including Carson McCullers, author of “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.” Gay Talese Goes Through the Twitter Wringer 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

This is the Kurt Vonnegut I want to remember, the generous novelist who viewed writers as kin, the wry humanist who believed we all must be kind, the active citizen who imagined a better world. 'And So It Goes': Kurt Vonnegut, disenchanted genius 2011-11-18T23:12:32Z

He started out by calling me an award-winning novelist, which was very kind of him, and the interview was great. Adam Mansbach: My year on the bestseller list 2012-12-12T01:00:00Z

Famed novelist Ian McEwan weighed in on the debate this weekend when discussing how he assigns a gender to characters in his novels. The Problem With Wanting to Know Your Baby's Sex Before Birth 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

Opened last fall, the apartment where novelist and film critic Alberto Moravia lived his last thirty years wonderfully evokes the creative foment of Rome's Modernist era. The Private Lives and Homes of Rome 2012-05-09T05:45:00Z

After the planes crashed into the twin towers, it took a few years, but eventually dozens of major novelists worked the 9/11 attacks into the plots of their stories. Salman Rushdie launches a novelistic attack on Trump 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Reviewing “The Friends” in The New York Times Book Review in 1973, the novelist Alice Walker described it as a “heart-slammer,” adding: “This book is called a ‘juvenile.’ Rosa Guy, 89, Author of Forthright Novels for Young People 2012-06-07T04:23:10Z

The novelist Reynolds Price, who died last year, paused to note the sorry status of book sections in his 2009 memoir, “Ardent Spirits.” Riff: A Critic’s Case for Critics Who Are Actually Critical 2012-08-15T15:40:06Z

Nearly 14 million people tuned in to watch the final episode in 2000 when novelist Colin Dexter's hero died from a heart attack. Morse set to return with prequel 2011-08-03T15:45:42Z

The book’s plot centers on an aspiring novelist who discovers that she was adopted and that her birth mother is about to be released from prison after being convicted of murdering a schoolgirl. P.D. James, who brought a gritty realism to the British detective novel, dies at 94

Tom Haley, the aspiring novelist whom Serena is to recruit, gets to see the analogy between the two professions. John Mullan on Sweet Tooth – Guardian book club 2013-06-29T07:00:23Z

The novelist gave an unsurprising answer – that she felt no impediment about attempting this – illustrated with a surprising anecdote. Book Club: Restoration by Rose Tremain 2012-10-05T21:55:08Z

Many ambitious novelists will regard the deep divisions of the present and try to describe the substance, details, and passions of our times. Eugene Lim’s Uncanny Sense of What It’s Like to Be Alive Right Now 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

The work also plays a role in “Origin,” the thriller by his older brother, novelist Dan Brown. The Esoterics sing radically secular rewrites of texts from the Christian Mass 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

"A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the 'Mexican Drug War'" by Mexican novelist Carmen Boullosa and U.S. historian Mike Wallace makes a strong bid to change that. 'A Narco History' explores Mexico's drug violence — and U.S. culpability 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Today, the novelist Philip Roth consciously practices a "late style", describing his recent novels as Late Roth. Real artists never retire ? or do they? 2011-03-22T11:48:34Z

She believes herself destined to be a novelist but is tormented by worry that wanting to write fiction about her own life, as she does, is “childish, egotistical, unartistic and worthy of contempt.” Elif Batuman’s Alter Ego Goes Back to College. Her Minor: Overthinking. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

The narrator of The Land at the End of the World is patently the novelist himself and his reminiscences about childhood, conscription, carnage in Angola and marital breakdown are rawly autobiographical. The Land at the End of the World by Ant?nio Lobo Antunes ? review 2011-07-21T10:45:01Z

It is the only time we expose her position as an intellectual, a novelist and a professor. "Saint Omer" examines the darkest maternity taboos and the "language of the accused" 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

For those who like fiction, the idea of crafting a character who is the stand-in for the novelist is more interesting than poking into a publisher’s financial records. The 10 most important books of 2016 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

An unconventional collaboration between a former World Bank economist and a novelist, “Equality for Women = Prosperity for All” analyzes how women’s exclusion from work and educational opportunities inhibits economic growth. Three New Takes on Feminism: In the Dorm, in the Economy and Around the World 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

“Italian Ways” is perfectly pleasurable, but Parks is a novelist foremost. ‘Italian Ways’: a not-quite-travel book on Italy’s railroads 2013-07-24T22:09:41Z

Finally, poet and novelist Tobias Hill reads from his most recent collection, the superb Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow. Haycast: Kazuo Ishiguro, Tobias Hill, Peter Hitchens 2010-05-29T08:57:00Z

But it was the novelist Anna Quindlen who set the tone for the weekend with a rousing keynote address lamenting two centuries of male condescension to Austen’s seemingly small domestic dramas. Jane Austen Society of North America Meets in Brooklyn 2012-10-09T01:17:17Z

Often, the teacher's notes take fire, and you see the novelist having a conversation with her books. From the margins 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z

Even very fine novelists struggle with character, because creating characters that are not just prismatic snap-off versions of oneself happens to be supremely difficult. Everything About Everything: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ at 20 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Though we risk being wrong about the direction of history, novelists find it increasingly impossible to turn away from prediction and the political moment. Planned Obsolescence 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

“Love After Love” is Hui’s 30th film, and an adaptation of a short story by the novelist Eileen Chang, whose fiction she has now used in three films. ‘Love After Love’ Review: Elegance Without a Center 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Mantel, with the novelist’s license, draws the circle more tightly. Review: ‘Wolf Hall,’ by Hilary Mantel 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

But a bohemian chic is still associated with boozy writers, especially dead American male novelists. Why do writers drink? 2013-07-20T07:00:14Z

The writers who signed the Authors United letter include bestselling novelists, award-winning biographers, Pulitzer Prize winners and MacArthur "Genius" fellows. Authors United: Who signed? 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

The appetite for such fiction made it rapidly newsworthy, and younger novelists became celebrities. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z

Here is the fragile, androgynous figure of a great novelist silently and only obliquely aware of the arsenal of her gifts and the demands of her time. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Walker Percy, the legendary novelist — born in Alabama, raised in Mississippi, lived in Louisiana, child and grandchild of suicides — said Christenberry’s photographs were a “poetic evocation of a haunted countryside.” After a lifetime of capturing what was, Christenberry faces what is 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

But the Irish novelist Edna O’Brien unpacks how Hemingway’s raw, tactile prose centers the woman’s thoughts and sensations. Review: ‘Hemingway’ Is a Big Two-Hearted Reconsideration 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

It’s confirmation of what was immediately obvious: With his rusty-tooth style and flare for brutality, Wascom is one of the most exhilarating historical novelists in the country. ‘Secessia’ is Kent Wascom’s vivid portrait of 1862 New Orleans 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

I know this flies in the face of the otherwise strict rules but some of these novelists are too important to let slip. The Great American Novel tournament 2012-07-09T14:07:00Z

Not just a book about a novelist in action, it's also a meditation on writing itself and on the curious intersections between the imagined world and the real one. 'The Nobodies Album': Trying to set right the stories of her life 2010-07-08T20:34:00Z

Obama -- the Interviewer in Chief -- sat down with award-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson for a conversation that is now available on iTunes and in the New York Review of Books. President Obama interviews author Marilynne Robinson 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

Based on the award-winning novel by one of Japan's most beloved contemporary novelists, Kyogoku Natsuhiko, this series tells the story of the hunt for a serial killer in postwar Japan. Anime for beginners: five TV series to get you started 2013-04-01T14:00:00Z

Novelists began featuring in newspapers and magazines; new novels – and the advances that novelists had received – became news items. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z

As the film goes on, the line between Jo and Alcott blurs; Ronan becomes both the character and the novelist who created her. What Greta Gerwig Saw in ‘Little Women’: ‘Those Are My Girls’ 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Nopca, a Catalan journalist and novelist, examines how capitalism is rigged against his characters, who are at times determined, desperate and dissolute. Short Story Collections for an Ever-Changing World 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

The novelist modestly laughs off that lofty title. James Patterson, honored for his literacy work, says we must do more 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Jennifer Vineyard catches up with the self-effacing novelist on book tour in New York. Books: Best Books of 2017, Andy Weir, American Airstream contradictions and more 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

The book, which Kinosian and Blair wrote together, revolves around the question of who killed novelist Arthur Whitney inside his spooky mansion on the night of his surprise birthday party. 'Murder for Two' offers exhaustingly manic music, comedy 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Dimly some recalled that literary novelists did not use sentences just to get from A to B. Yet among our dozen, there were one or two who seemed wonderfully oblivious to formal trickery. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z

Photograph: Getty Images The award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel has sparked a row with a description of the Duchess of Cambridge as a "shop-window mannequin" with no personality whose only purpose is to breed. Kate, the 'plastic princess': Hilary Mantel's damning take on duchess 2013-02-19T08:48:03Z

In fact, the distinct opening and closing sections are so good as to suggest that Cheshire may be a better short story writer than he is a novelist. Book review: ‘High as the Horses’ Bridles,’ by Scott Cheshire

And his conversational prose style, which can impart the treacherous delusion that you, reader, might also become a famous novelist if you simply typed up 100 percent of your internal monologue and hit spell-check. Love or Hate Emmanuel Carrère’s Forceful Tangents, They’re Back in ‘Yoga’ 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

The dominant style, particularly among male novelists of the middle and later decades of the 20th century, has been melodramatic self-display. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev's story The Song of Triumphant Love is a tale of exotic wonders, of forbidden passion, and a strange love-song more powerful than murder. LPO Music in the Courtyard - programme notes 2012-08-29T21:53:45Z

The narrator of Rachel Cusk’s Outline novels is, like Cusk, a novelist. In ‘Optic Nerve,’ a Woman Trains a Sharp Eye on Art and Her Life 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

To my mind, MacDonald was easily the better of the two, and many crime novelists concur. Jonathan Kellerman's top 10 LA noir novels 2010-03-31T08:32:00Z

No, the real reason for encouraging novelists to overcome their critical inhibitions is that their contributions help maintain the rigor and vitality of the public conversation about books. Bookends: Are Novelists Too Wary of Criticizing Other Novelists? 2013-09-03T17:19:22Z

The world war one novelists Sebastian Faulkes and Pat Barker will also be on the committee, along with three leading defence figures from each party Lord King, Lord Robertson, and Menzies Campbell. David Cameron announces £50m fund for first world war commemorations 2012-10-11T19:12:20Z

Naturally, there are parallels between Quichotte’s quest and the spy novelist’s travails, including his own lost son and his own descent into fantasy. Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’ is a shambling ‘Don Quixote’ for our deceptive era - The Washington Post 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

That Bardem plays a poet, specifically, and not just some workaday novelist, is important: poet, from the Greek poetes, meaning to make or create. The Mythic Maximalism of Darren Aronofsky’s “Mother!” 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

Flanagan, the author of a half-dozen books, is the third Australian and first novelist born in Tasmania to win the prize. Richard Flanagan wins 2014 Man Booker Prize 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

A novelist doesn't blame his characters, he just tries to make them intelligible. ArtsBeat: A String of Antiheroes: Martin Amis Talks About His Novels 2012-10-03T12:59:28Z

And novelist James Baldwin, who praised Heyward's depiction of this strata of Southern life, also complained it omitted how whites helped cause and perpetuate the poverty and criminality the story depicts. Gershwin classic 'Porgy and Bess' to take stage at Seattle Opera 2011-07-24T02:05:27Z

Charles Baxter | Sept. 10 Word Works, novelist discusses plot development in fiction. Literary events calendar 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

The novelist E. L. Doctorow was the in-house editor for the series, which went through many editions and much updating through the years. Sylvan Barnet, Scholar, Is Dead at 89; Edited Signet Shakespeare Paperbacks 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

When British novelist Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel literature prize in 2007, she was too ill to travel. The $900,000 question behind Bob Dylan's Nobel prize 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Courtesy of the artists A few weeks ago, a famous – and famously beautiful – young novelist found herself unfortunately seated beside me at an otherwise impeccably Hampstead dinner party. Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

Her most serious piece here may be the appreciation of the 18th-century novelist Samuel Richardson and the three qualities his work represents for her: “peace, principle, kindness.” New collection of Shirley Jackson writings is best left to devoted fans 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Ms. Atwood, who lives in Toronto with her husband, the novelist Graeme Gibson, comes from a family of scientists and inventors. Margaret Atwood, Digital Deep-Diver, Writes ‘The Heart Goes Last’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

When she asked if there was a formula to be a successful novelist, Faulkner told her it was 99 percent talent, 99 percent discipline and 99 percent work. Jean Stein, Who Chronicled Wealth, Fame and Influence, Dies at 83 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

The prize, named after the novelist, is presented at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington DC. Ferrell to receive comedy honour 2011-05-13T08:22:03Z

That same year marked her own debut as a novelist. Carol Higgins Clark, Mystery Writer, Is Dead at 66 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

Who can resist a memoir by the greatest living spy novelist of our time? 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

He is known primarily as a novelist and freely spices his conversation with literary references. With 'Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana,' Umberto Eco considers identity 2005-06-13T04:00:00Z

There’s an empathetic impulse that is, I think, common among novelists, and I tried to imagine how I would have behaved in their place. Boston bombing: We would have been standing right there 2013-04-30T00:00:00Z

Leave the dystopias to the novelists and leave the fiction on the page. Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

“Lanchester, a British novelist and journalist, has a sharp eye for social class and setting in his ghost stories for the digital age.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

“I’m an American. I’m an American novelist,” he said. Salman Rushdie on the opulent realism of his new novel, 'The Golden House' 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

She began a career there first as a freelance writer and then as a novelist. Ruth Park obituary 2011-01-07T16:46:38Z

“The role of the novelist is to deeply inhabit the lives of characters who are different than ourselves,” he said. The Coming of Age of Transgender Literature 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Trish Evans, my Australian publicist/novelist best friend, introduced me to the “Provincial Lady” series, her favorites as a young girl. Sylvia Nasar: By the Book 2012-08-10T14:14:08Z

Then Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels became an international sensation, selling over 11 million copies, inspiring an acclaimed HBO series and cementing her reputation as the most successful Italian novelist in years. ‘The Ferrante Effect’: In Italy, Women Writers Are Ascendant 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

Observing a free-labor textile mill and a convict-labor one on a visit to the United States, novelist Charles Dickens couldn’t tell the difference.  Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z

Ireland’s greatest living novelist occupies a unique place in the contemporary pantheon. John Banville’s New Murder Mystery Starts Like a Game of Clue 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

Martin grew up into a comic novelist and a prolific periodical scribbler, just like dad. Good Night, Sweet Prince 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

Only her intelligence – a novelist's intelligence, with a shrewd eye for vanity, and an understanding that everything is informed by compromise – keeps her tale from losing its grounding in reality. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo – review 2012-06-29T07:00:03Z

Great novelists, male and female, often have personal qualities that sideline them socially but that also offer them a quiet perch from which to observe others. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

Roger K. Miller, a former newspaperman, is a novelist and freelance writer and editor. 'The President and the Assassin': when ruthless capitalism and radical anarchy collided 2011-06-09T20:09:05Z

There’s been a trend, in recent years, of novels based on the biographies of novelists. Why Novelize a Novelist's Life? 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Gardner Smith, a precocious student of literature, read the same novelists as most aspiring writers in mid-century America: Hemingway and Faulkner, Proust and Dostoyevsky. “How Does It Feel To Be a White Man?”: William Gardner Smith’s Exile in Paris 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

As this one opens, Lenù is 32, enjoying both esteem as a novelist and a sinecure in the prosperous, law-abiding Italian north. ‘The Story of the Lost Child,’ review: Elena Ferrante’s final — key — volume 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

This should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Robinson, a novelist who can make the most quotidian moments epic because of her ability to peel back the surfaces of ordinary lives. Marilynne Robinson's grace shines through in 'Lila' 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

The novelist Ralph Ellison was a few years ahead of Murray at Tuskegee. Review: Albert Murray’s Symphonic Elegance Sings in a New Anthology 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

His collection fell into the hands of the novelist Richard Powers, who championed Yu to be named one of the National Book Foundation’s Five Under 35 most promising writers in America in 2007. With His Fourth Book, Charles Yu Finally Feels Like a Writer 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

We’re in that place on the human map too often avoided by American novelists: poverty, the subtle prison where society’s marginalized are immured, pick your particular referent. On Loony Island, a Malignant Priest Strips Mental Patients of Free Will 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

These issues are being explored, but perhaps less prosaically than 'novelists taking climate change as a topic'. Hay presto 2010-05-28T15:51:00Z

If elected, Abrams wouldn't be the first romance novelist to win statewide office. Will a romance novelist be the next governor of Georgia? 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

In the story, Less is one of five international novelists vying for a prize. Andrew Sean Greer on Writing and Winning 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

In “Literature’s Arctic Obsession,” Kathryn Schulz examines the Arctic fixation shared by many writers and novelists in the nineteenth century. Sunday Reading: Winter Adventures 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

The rest of the field brings together novelists from around the world and includes writing translated from French, German, Hebrew and Kannada. Man Booker International prize 2013 reveals shortlist 2013-01-24T15:01:54Z

In a Strange Room presents us with a novelist at the height of his considerable powers and, in South Africa, we're pulling for him. The Booker prize-shortlisted tale by Damon Galgut that's both truth and fiction 2010-09-08T08:50:00Z

Greer’s “Less,” a comic novel that won the Pulitzer Prize, followed the minor novelist Arthur Less as he traveled the world to attend a string of mostly minor literary events. 33 Works of Fiction and Poetry Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Jacob is a recovering novelist who won the National Jewish Book Award at age 24. Where has Jonathan Safran Foer been all these years? 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

Anna, the protagonist, is, like Lessing, a novelist from Africa. Doris Lessing’s ‘Golden Notebook’ and Our Era of Unrest 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z

It’s not just zombies and vampires, gin and tattoos, or wet-white-shirt Darcys and Bridget Jones movies that have recast Austen as the Melissa McCarthy of classic novelists. Fifty shades of Mr. Darcy: A brief history of X-rated Jane Austen adaptations 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

"There are greater novelists than me — though not many, I say humbly. But, boy, can I sustain concentration.... Boy, can I be alone and think. And I remain ever acute." James Ellroy talks up his new L.A. Quartet 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

In 2009 he released “Vicksburg 1863,” an account of the Union siege that brought a novelist’s touch to historical figures like Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman and Jefferson Davis, president of the confederacy. ‘Forrest Gump’ author Winston Groom dead at 77 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

Her first book was said to have been labeled disgusting filth by no less a literary arbiter than famed romance novelist Barbara Cartland. Jackie Collins, chronicler of lust and power, dies at 77 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

It’s extraordinary not just that Updike established himself as one of the pre-eminent critics of his day, but also that he did so while moonlighting from his vocation as a novelist. Books of The Times: ?Higher Gossip? by John Updike - Review 2011-11-28T22:39:39Z

Invisibility is, with little exception, the novelist’s superpower. Want to Spice Up a Marriage? Switch Bodies. 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z

That said, what's most interesting about this tale of a crook impersonating a murdered sheriff in a Pennsylvania's Amish country is that it's written by critically acclaimed novelists Jonathan Tropper and David Schickler. Girls, games and golden boys: what to watch on US TV in 2013 2013-01-04T16:14:02Z

We live in a very different world to the one that 19th-century novelists lived in. TC Boyle: 'It's a godless world, without hope' 2012-10-13T23:06:05Z

I thought that I was going to be a novelist for a while. Katori Hall on creating "P-Valley," demystifying sex work and the art of filming a pole dance 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

A: I'm influenced as a writer by Southern novelists. A Minute With: Billy Bob Thornton on recasting himself for TV 2014-04-09T11:03:54Z

From the award-winning novelist — after his death a young woman finds the diary of her Chinese-born father, a CIA agent convicted many years earlier of spying for China. Fall books: 37 new titles to add to your reading list 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

In making their choices, he said, the judges had considered "novels, not novelists; texts, not reputations". Man Booker 2012: Shortlist at a glance 2012-09-11T15:43:40Z

How much do we really understand about the CIA, even after all the attention paid by novelists and screenwriters and journalists to its myths and legends? Oh, the suffering of the CIA: In Showtime’s “The Spymasters,” America’s chief spooks bare their souls on the pain of the terror war 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

While Charlie’s teachers were novelists, composers and scientists, ours were asked to combine teaching and social work. His Family Had Money. Mine Didn’t. 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

This is the third time Granta has dedicated an issue to young American novelists. Granta names 21 of the best young American novelists 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Their love affair is fictional, dreamed up by novelist Tracy Chevalier for the book on which this film is based. Girl with a Pearl Earring: plenty of style, but not a whole lot of substance 2013-07-25T09:21:38Z

Now she is proudly escorting her directorial debut, A Tale of Love and Darkness, adapted from a memoir by Israeli novelist Amos Oz, to Cannes film festival. Natalie Portman on Israel, Hollywood sexism and ‘being the boss’ 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

In the movie Ms. Streep effortlessly imitates those burnished, sometimes strident, declamatory tones, the one the novelist Angela Carter once said were reminiscent “not of real toffs but of Wodehouse aunts.” Arts & Leisure: For ?Iron Lady,? Armor Added to Streep?s Wardrobe 2011-12-23T15:01:39Z

And covering a 2000 revival screening of “Breathless,” the essayist and novelist Philip Lopate said he felt as exhilarated by the film as when he first saw it 40 years before. Jean-Luc Godard, Daring Director Who Shaped the French New Wave, Dies at 91 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

The novelist Flaubert hated the rituals of bourgeois life. | Miuccia Prada’s Circle of Influence 2013-05-27T13:00:48Z

Graham Greene, who wrote about faith and doubt and self-betrayal as deeply as any novelist of the 20th century, said, “The creative act seems to remain a function of the religious mind.” Philip Roth’s retirement lesson 2013-02-12T12:39:00Z

I had passed beyond the reach of the fact checker and felt a bit like I imagine a novelist does transcribing her waking dream. How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

He had better luck as a novelist, with page-turners like “The Da Vinci Code,” “The Lost Symbol” and other thrillers that collectively have more than 220 million copies in print. Dan Brown … Children’s Book Author? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Scant details are known about his life – just enough to offer a tantalising prospect to a novelist with an eye for ambiguity. Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review 2013-03-23T15:00:01Z

In “Empire of Self,” Vidal finally gets what he wished for: To be taken seriously as a novelist. Review: In ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ Jay Parini Catalogs More Than Illuminates 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

"All of this exists because I'm a novelist," he said. Jonathan Tropper offers 'This Is Where I Leave You' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

The debut novelist spent nine years trying to get the book published. Debut writers dominate Baileys list 2014-04-07T18:15:07Z

In a letter that was posted on the Guild’s website Thursday, the novelist Richard Russo, a Guild vice president, explained why the Guild was rejecting the offer. Authors Guild calls Amazon 'ruthless,' sides with Hachette 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

On a foundation of rigorous scholarship, Walls, a professor of English at Notre Dame, resurrects Thoreau’s life with a novelist’s sympathy and pacing. This new biography of Henry David Thoreau is the masterpiece he deserves 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

Hamid is a deft and fluid novelist, unafraid to take on big topics. Mohsin Hamid's new book takes a post-9/11 view 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

In April, novelist Iain Banks declared "I am Officially Very Poorly" and shared with the world his diagnosis of terminal cancer. Catch-up TV guide: from Dates to Glyndebourne 2013-06-22T05:00:05Z

"She tried to put a cheerful face on it, but I think she felt indicted and betrayed; mothers, don't raise your children to be novelists." Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z

We sat with an archivist for Coca-Cola, some newlyweds who had saved up for a honeymoon night and a retired surgeon in his 80s who was having an improbable romance with a younger novelist. On a Georgia Island, a Lot of Good Food and Plenty of Nothing 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

Originally published in 1898, this story of a sheepdog in an English mountain village, by the British novelist Alfred Ollivant, became a classic in England and the United States in the early nineteen-hundreds. Books to Watch Out For: August 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Long acknowledged finding the book - in which Cusk, an award-winning novelist, recounts the breakdown of her marriage - full of narrative gaps and "quite simply, bizarre." Review of 'blah' memoir wins Hatchet Job prize 2013-02-12T20:01:11Z

In this Sunday’s Book Review, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson considers the debt that Western literature owes to the Bible. ArtsBeat Blog: Book Review Podcast: What Literature Owes the Bible 2011-12-23T17:45:38Z

Among the some 2,000 people he rescued were the artist Max Ernst, the political philosopher Hannah Arendt and the German novelist Heinrich Mann. In ‘Transatlantic,’ Stories of Rescue and Resistance From World War II 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z

Conceived as a response to “New York in 1979,” an erotic anatomy of the city by the novelist Kathy Acker, this production presents Minsk as a place where sex is a thwarted, warping force. Critic’s Notebook: In London, ‘Minsk, 2011’ and ‘Mercury Fur’ 2012-06-29T22:09:31Z

As the book opens, Burroughs begins dating Mitch, a novelist whose minor celebrity is almost purely a function of the fact that his best friend is another, far more celebrated novelist. ‘Lust & Wonder’: Do we really need another Augusten Burroughs memoir? 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Both were liberal intellectuals: his mother, a librarian, and his father, the novelist Frederick Busch. 'Dust to Dust': born to be a soldier 2012-03-28T19:26:05Z

Mr. Carey is a shrewd reader, reminding us of what was perhaps Golding’s greatest gift as a novelist, his ability to go into “Martian mode, showing familiar things from an alien viewpoint.” Books of The Times: ?William Golding,? the Lighter Side, by John Carey 2010-07-06T23:03:00Z

Amis’s explanation of why Larkin is not “a poet’s poet” but “a novelist’s poet” is so illuminating, so useful to a reader, that it almost justifies the book all by itself. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

“Hemingway,” airing Monday through Wednesday, delves into the famed novelist’s works and life to reveal the “complicated man behind the myth.” New this Week: ‘Kung Fu,’ ‘Rebel’ and ‘Thunder Force’ 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

I was thinking when we started to speak, I’m so glad I’m a novelist and not a politician. Rachel Kushner meets Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I'm so glad I'm a novelist and not a politician’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

The film is merciless toward Anderson, an aspiring novelist in his mid-30s whose smooth exterior conceals a sad history of failure compounded by emotional instability. | 'Daydream Nation': Picking Up Extra Credit, and Teacher, After School 2011-05-06T05:30:05Z

That, of course, is what a good novelist is supposed to do and what Boyd abjectly fails to pull off in this book. ‘Sweet Caress’ review: A portrait of a photographer’s tumultuous career 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

As the title implies, this is a memory-play seen through the eyes of Chekhov's discontented novelist. The Notebook of Trigorin | Theatre review 2010-04-05T21:00:00Z

An award for Outstanding Achievement, won last year by playwright and novelist Michael Frayn, will also be presented during the ceremony on 12 March. Olympic art up for South Bank award 2013-02-06T17:35:47Z

His daughter, Sarah, a novelist in her own right, offers an impeccable Afterword, masterly in its economy and weight. The Letters of William Gaddis edited by Steven Moore – review 2013-06-15T08:01:58Z

Galgut’s formidable talent as a novelist transforms the facts of Forster’s life into art, which is poetic justice given Forster’s efforts to make stories and novels more meaningful and satisfactory than life itself. Review: ‘Arctic Summer’ by Damon Galgut, a fictional biography of E.M. Forster

Hembrey talks about his artists — and he says it that way, “my artists” — as fully realized people, using the same vaguely custodial tone that novelists sometimes employ when discussing their characters. One Hundred Artists Rolled Into One Man 2011-12-16T16:41:49Z

No wonder, then, that it’s so rare to see novelists or poets actually criticize one another — rare enough that when it does happen, it’s treated as a controversy or a scandal. Bookends: Are Novelists Too Wary of Criticizing Other Novelists? 2013-09-03T17:19:22Z

He meets a famous mystery novelist on the train. My Book-Buffer for June and July 2012-07-03T18:40:01Z

In 1976, Zanuck and Brown announced a much-publicized deal with the estate of novelist Margaret Mitchell to produce a sequel to "Gone With the Wind." Oscar-winning producer Richard Zanuck dead at 77 2012-07-14T00:46:05Z

The novelist and professor at a Roman Catholic university who was born in 1909 into an austere and puritanical Methodist household in Ohio was Samuel M. Steward. Samuel Steward?s Life in ?Secret Historian? 2010-07-26T00:00:00Z

Poet, novelist and civil rights activist Maya Angelou died in May at the age of 86, prompting US President Barack Obama to hail her "one of the brightest lights of our time". Famous faces who died in 2014 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

For a few mesmerizing seconds the novelist waits for him to leap — or fall. In ‘Forest Dark,’ Nicole Krauss Plays With Divided Selves 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

“A critical mass of critical praise had been established just in time for the series to be released as a DVD box set,” says Alvarez, who is now a novelist and screenwriter. The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We tore the cover off a city and showed the American dream was dead’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

"Literary novelist" started to look like a rewarding career path, not an after-hours occupation. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z

At the Museum of London until June 10, the display offers a glimpse into Britain’s capital as the novelist experienced it, through his best and worst of times. Great Celebrations: 6 Ways to Ring In Dickens? Bicentennial 2012-01-19T11:58:17Z

Starting the film with that text is telling us what kind of novelist Rama is. "Saint Omer" examines the darkest maternity taboos and the "language of the accused" 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

He’s a social novelist, writing about young men and women who are largely antisocial. Books of The Times: ‘Taipei,’ by Tao Lin 2013-06-04T12:00:01Z

“There aren’t a lot of writers who have tried to take a literary approach to technical questions, and a technical approach to literary questions,” the novelist Richard Powers said. A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

Master detective Sherlock Holmes is to follow in the suave footsteps of spy James Bond, gaining a new lease of life in the hands of a high-profile modern novelist. Sherlock Holmes returns in official sequel by Anthony Horowitz 2011-01-17T15:35:57Z

The biographical drama with Keira Knightley and Dominic West about the life of the French novelist who was forced to publish her novels under her husband’s name. Box Office: 'The House With a Clock in Its Walls' leads with $26.8... 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

Morgan is the appropriate person to write such a book, given his mixed professional life as novelist, poet and biographer. 'Lions of the West': A group biography 2011-12-22T00:54:03Z

Despite his prolific output as novelist and playwright, many critics considered Vidal's witty and acerbic essays his best work. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z

If an actress needed a double, a man would just throw on a wig and a skirt, according to “Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story,” a 2015 book by Mollie Gregory, a novelist and screenwriter. ‘It’s Not for Wimps’: 8 Stuntwomen Reflect on Their Careers 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

If “neurosurgeon” sounds like surprisingly scientific territory for a novelist whose primary interest lies in the supernatural, consider this point that Rice made in an interview with The Times in 2021, shortly before her death. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Finding Your Roots’ and ‘Mayfair Witches’ 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

So said which British novelist on the occasion of Margaret Thatcher’s 1979 election victory? The Iron Lady in literature 2013-04-08T14:58:19Z

There is also a particularly interesting retelling of the stories by the Danish novelist Villy Sørensen, published in Danish as Ragnarok: En gudefortælling and in English as The Downfall of the Gods. Ragnar?k: the doom of the gods 2011-08-05T21:55:10Z

But more significantly, her success helped create a viable market for countless other novelists writing erotic fiction. Analysis | 11 trends that changed the way we read this decade 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Wednesday night, Weiner was discussing his justly fawned over advertising saga “Mad Men” with novelist A.M. Matthew Weiner, Jeb Bush and our “cynical” little doubts: From Big Oil to classic Coke, suddenly it’s “arrogant” to question what we’re being sold 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The Gilded Age novelist herself: “Yes! Wharton is perfect. ‘Age of Innocence.’ So You’ve Read ‘The House of Mirth.’ Now What? 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

At the Lyceum, 21 August to 3 September Miller, debut author of Snowdrops, is one of a handful of Man Booker-nominated novelists to be featured at this year's Edinburgh international book festival. Dance Marathon aims to exhaust Edinburgh festivalgoers 2011-08-05T17:28:06Z

“It’s like being hit by a truck, the book is so all over the place,” the novelist Andrew Holleran, who has known Mr. Kramer since the 1970s, said of the book. Larry Kramer’s Novel ‘The American People’ Adds a Gay Dimension to History 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

When a literary novelist uses genre elements, we expect not a smooth embrace between the different sets of assumptions but a certain amount of productive friction. All That Follows by Jim Crace 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z

American Rust was published to huge critical acclaim in 2009 and the New Yorker rated him one of the 20 best novelists under 40 in 2010. Philipp Meyer: 'We don't have a good context for where we come from as Americans' 2013-07-21T08:30:00Z

The pieces in “The Informed Air” remind us that Spark became a novelist only in her 30s. Michael Dirda reviews “The Informed Air: Essays by Muriel Spark”

Claridge rather cruelly dismisses Hergesheimer as just a popular society novelist, though he was more than that, as readers of his novella “Wild Oranges ” know. Blanche Knopf: The complicated woman behind a powerful literary brand 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

Photograph: James Penlidis Photography Whether we become what we are through our genes or through our experiences in life is the old chestnut that this debut novelist tackles with refreshing originality, wit and verve. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion – review 2013-04-28T08:59:01Z

Auden wrote the journal between August and November 1939, shortly after he left England for America with the novelist Christopher Isherwood – a move heavily criticised as unpatriotic by the British media. Unseen WH Auden diary sheds light on famous poem and personal life 2013-06-26T08:00:03Z

“The idea of nurturing a graphic novelist—I’m so into it.” Salinger’s House, Artist’s Retreat 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

We also talk to novelist Paul Bailey about coming to terms with old age in fiction. Guardian Books podcast: Life, death and literary critics 2011-02-04T11:07:00Z

To summarize recent arguments: Last year, novelist Claire Messud called out a Publisher’s Weekly interviewer for labeling one of the characters in The Woman Upstairs “grim,” a poor candidate for friendship. Reese Witherspoon Isn't Nice and Wholesome in "Wild," and That’s What Makes it Great 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

I understand, too, that some novelists do dream of Hollywood. The Unadaptable Me 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Where a novelist can devote chapters to the twists and turns of fate, a playwright must use shorthand. 'Abundance' of plot twists hard to believe in Western wives tale 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

Critics anointed her as “a writer of rare confidence” and “the first great millennial novelist.” Sally Rooney to Publish ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You’ 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

But it may also be that the diversity of the writers doing the work of writing great fiction reveals a need to reconsider what a great novelist is supposed to do, write and look like. Perspective | Where’s the great millennial novel? A Gen Xer wonders. 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Give such a life to a renowned novelist who is part journalist, part politician and an inveterate chronicler of power and its abuses, Faber argues, and the result is likely to be a winning one. Nobel winner Mario Vargas Llosa finds perfect protagonist in Roger Casement 2010-10-18T18:19:00Z

You can rely on the novelist Will Self to combine entertainment, experimentation and provocation in equal measure as he moves in with Radio 4. Will Self in talks to become Radio 4 writer-in-residence 2013-01-18T17:02:38Z

Although he was praised for his translations, Heim said he disagreed with the view that translators effectively were creating new works and didn't consider himself a novelist. Prominent translator Michael Henry Heim dies 2012-10-02T20:33:09Z

Marga Minco, a Dutch novelist who was one of the last of a generation of European Holocaust authors whose works are widely considered literary classics, died on Monday at her home in Amsterdam. Marga Minco, Who Chronicled Jewish Life in Wartime, Dies at 103 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z

But I knew one, a novelist named Regina March, one of his minor discoveries from some years back. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

Also on display is a letter to George Eliot which shows she clearly did not approve that the novelist was not married to George Lewis and agonised about how to refer to her. Elizabeth Gaskell bicentenary marked with exhibition 2010-07-20T14:49:00Z

That fall, she hosted a reading series and invited me to read in it, along with the novelists Glenville Lovell and A. J. Verdelle. The Ancestral Blessings of Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

A novelist, short story writer and essayist, Davis is also an acclaimed translator. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Few novelists have attempted to capture Miami’s various cultures — and cultural collisions — with the seriousness and empathy that Banks employs in his sweeping epic. Read Your Way Through Miami 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

At the same time, Mr. Kellman suggests, the young Mr. Obama was thinking about becoming a novelist and was looking not only for experience and a sense of community, but also for material. Books of The Times: David Remnick?s ?Bridge? Adds Details on Obama?s Life 2010-04-05T22:06:00Z

In this case, Lynskey's Kelly is a minor novelist now preoccupied with the demands of raising Jude. 'Happy Christmas' piles insecurities, angsty comedy under tree 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

For a young novelist, it was a big night, the culmination of more than a decade of work. A Novelist’s Wartime Education 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

The novelist and journalist Tom Wolfe, who died this week at 88, wrote this deeply reported tale about the early days of the American space program that provided the basis for this film. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ and ‘Bombshell’ 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

As it is, the pugnacious novelist is doubtless spinning in his grave. Letters to the Editor 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Until he was almost 70, Camilleri was a minor historical novelist who was better known as a director of Pirandello. Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing 2012-07-06T21:55:16Z

For the new historical novelist, then, “the past is beyond redemption. The telling has to offer its own reward.” ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

But the novelist ensures you hear plenty in their silence. Booker club: Last Orders by Graham Swift 2012-07-24T11:28:36Z

The novelist George Sand used a man’s name to traverse the literary world of 19th-century France and then men’s clothes to traverse Paris. Rebecca Solnit: if I were a man 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

On the April day that gives Donald Antrim’s book its title, the novelist had to be coaxed off a fire escape. Review | Donald Antrim’s ‘One Friday in April’ is a vital book about mental illness and recovery 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Quinn is a film critic turned novelist, and a cinematic luster silvers his fiction, which is briskly plotted, fluent in visual and verbal cliché and highly, guiltily satisfying. ‘I Am the Kind of Woman I Would Run From’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

David never hides these flaws, and does her best to persuade us that Manning was a great novelist. Olivia Manning: A Woman at War by Deirdre David - review 2013-02-16T08:01:01Z

At 63, she is making her debut as a novelist, despite being a longtime fixture in American literary circles. A Bookstore Owner Taps a Wound to Write a First Novel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

The novelist Richard Wright, in a reader’s report for Harper & Brothers in the early 1940s, declared Brooks essential: “America needs a voice like hers.” Claudia Rankine on the Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

Such are the perils of auto-fiction, in which the novelist’s life and story are so densely enmeshed that telling one from the other looks like part of the plot. Review | In Francisco Goldman’s ‘Monkey Boy,’ an author grapples with the alternative facts of his family history 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

The TV journalist and novelist Bradby reported from Northern Ireland for ITN in the 1990s, the setting of , the first of his six thrillers. Shadow Dancer – review 2012-08-25T23:08:02Z

The novelist Cormac McCarthy was so interested in her work that he offered to edit her first book. The Dark Energy of a Theoretical Physicist 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

The novelist, who had worked on the script of the 1959 blockbuster Ben-Hur, conceived the film as an epic of imperial decadence. Penthouse's Bob Guccione: The Dark Prince of Porn 2010-10-21T08:45:00Z

Here, for both Israeli and Palestinian novelists, 'the situation' is always there ... Ian McEwan attacks 'great injustice' in Israel 2011-02-20T21:24:47Z

Before he departed New York for a television job in Los Angeles in 2014, he was well known in his hometown as an essayist, novelist, performer and bon vivant. Brooklyn Man Finds New Life in Crime (Writing) 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

She works with poets, I work with novelists, and we supervise and support each other. Jenn Ashworth: My desktop 2012-07-31T14:27:07Z

I'm terribly sorry for the death of Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's greatest novelist, a generous friend. Reaction to death of Mexican author Carlos Fuentes 2012-05-15T22:03:08Z

The novelist Rachel Kushner said the question was hard to answer. Ambivalence Prevails at PEN Festival Prayer Session 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

But, generally, it took novelists a little more time to shape the nightmare into a story. Perspective | What will post-pandemic fiction look like? The novels that followed 9/11 offer some clues. 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease, said his son Lev, a novelist and the book critic at Time magazine. Allen Grossman, a Poet’s Poet and Scholar, Dies at 82 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

But tempting as it may be to contrast Orr’s and Self’s memoirs, a more instructive comparison is with the novelist Edward St Aubyn. The critical drubbing for Will Self’s book shows there’s a subtle art to memoir | Hadley Freeman 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

DeLillo will make a rare Los Angeles appearance at Writers Bloc on May 11, where he will be in conversation with novelist Rachel Kushner. A rare interview with Don DeLillo, one of the titans of American fiction 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Because the bald guy, the ferociously energetic actor Jeff Blumenkrantz, plays a hefty handful of prime suspects, all of whom had ample cause to wish the novelist Arthur Whitney dead. Theater Review: In the Musical ‘Murder for Two,’ One Man Is Many Suspects 2013-07-26T02:00:01Z

But she’s never been kissed or asked on a date and, like the novelist she hopes to be, she overthinks everything. In Elif Batuman’s ‘Either/Or,’ a Witty and Perceptive Young Woman Returns 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

We do not talk of Tolstoy or Balzac or Hawthorne as “historical novelists” any more than we think of Shakespeare as a historical playwright. For Literary Novelists the Past Is Pressing 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z

Each week, two writers drawn from a lineup of 12 novelists, critics and essayists offer responses of roughly 600 words to a given question. Kill the Bookends column: Why the New York Times Book Review’s most frustrating feature has to go 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Some of the magazine’s contributors were unknown, and others were celebrated figures such as the novelist Graham Greene, who seldom wrote for magazines. Alexander Chancellor, editor who transformed Spectator magazine, dies at 77 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

In a recent interview on NPR, Ford told Terry Gross that since he is a novelist he “deals in particulars.” Parents are people first — who may even love each other more than the kids 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

Which is all to say that J. P. Donleavy is, inarguably, a proper full-fledged novelist by any measure. T Magazine: J.P. Donleavy is Still Standing 2014-03-07T20:19:12Z

Its name is “Dear American Airlines,” after a comic novel by Jonathan Miles, a novelist who lived for many years in Oxford. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

A Novel Romance Amy Acker, Dylan Bruce star in this new romance about a novelist who moves to Portland to cure his writer's block and falls in love with his biggest critic. Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: 'The Other Woman' 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

While many of the group's members have written books, don't expect to find a lot of poets or novelists in the mix. Authors in support of Donald Trump are conservative thinkers and academics — plus one radical Marxist 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

Catherine Hubback, Jane Austen's niece and a novelist, too, at 52, left her husband in an asylum and their three adult children, and travelled by railway from New York to San Francisco. Land of two acts 2013-03-05T08:00:00Z

Byrne's essays add up to a fine appraisal of the novelist's environment, truly Austenish in the way they burrow into a sequestered and often secretive private world. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z

Twenty years ago, novelist Junot Díaz promised his goddaughters he would write a children’s book for them. Junot Diaz says children’s books lack diversity. He hopes his will help change that. 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

I think of novelist Haruki Murakami, who compares writing a novel to digging a hole through deep rock to reach a source of water. Essay by Viet Thanh Nguyen: On uselessness 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Williams’s cry for attention reminded Horn of a book reading she once did with best-selling novelist Michael Chabon. A stranger e-mailed saying he planned to kill himself. What was I supposed to do? 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

But once the story begins, her rendering of the novelist’s language and style is simply splendid. Books of The Times: On a Fool?s Mission in a Dying Colonial World 2011-06-29T22:32:48Z

He is the third South African novelist to win the Booker Prize, after Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Booker winner Damon Galgut laments South Africa’s gloom 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

That's what veteran crime novelist Timothy Hallinan has accomplished with his latest series of novels featuring Junior Bender, full-time Los Angeles burglar and part-time private eye-style fixer for the city's criminal element. Review: `Little Elvises' compelling, suspenseful 2013-01-29T00:31:05Z

Glenn Close received her seventh Oscar nomination with a best-actress nod for “The Wife,” about a woman who questions her life’s choices as the spouse of a great novelist. ‘Roma’ and ‘The Favourite’ Lead Oscar Nominations 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

With the exception of Henry James, most nineteenth-century novelists—be they Balzac, Dickens or Dostoyevsky—have disdained their wealthy characters, tending to burden them with equal parts animal cunning and moral laxity. The Rich in Fiction 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z

In the short term, however, nearly all novelists have a dip in their reputations in the years immediately following their deaths. Is the 'Beryl Bainbridge Booker' a good thing? 2011-02-13T00:05:32Z

The Tate-LaBianca murders, as the novelist Zachary Lazar has suggested, very quickly moved into the realm of what he calls “contemporary folklore.” Keeping Faith with the Manson Women 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

And so Penguin Random House is now completing the important task of transforming Tom Clancy, deceased spy novelist, into Tom Clancy, the brand. Support and Defend: Tom Clancy's Legacy Lives On 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

In his introduction, the acclaimed Peruvian-American novelist Daniel Alarcón, who also did the powerful translation, mentions that Reyes saw her own newborn child killed in front of her during unrest in Paraguay. An Artist’s Childhood, Etched in Trauma and Abandonment 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

He’s passionate in his defense of the environment, though it’s hard to find a decent novelist who isn’t. In ‘Phase Six,’ Two Women Get to Work Saving the World From a Pandemic 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Perrotta owes at least some of his prominence as a novelist to his success in Hollywood, where he has an unusually high hit rate for adaptations. Tom Perrotta Returns to Familiar Turf: Sex, Schools and Suburbia 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Beevor praised Dunmore's writing for its historical accuracy, and said he appreciated that "in comparison with some historical novelists she does not try to novelise characters". Helen Dunmore warns the Hay festival of the dangers in fictionalising history 2010-05-31T16:19:00Z

In Rushdie’s telling, Quichotte is the invention of a writer named Sam DuChamp, a washed-up spy novelist of small sales and broken dreams. Salman Rushdie Updates ‘Don Quixote’ for the Digital Age 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Among the strongest views were those expressed by Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon James, who was a student at the Wilkes University master of fine arts program when Smelcer briefly taught there. Writer’s claims to native heritage are questioned after PEN Center USA names his book a finalist 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

Several local novelists and literary personalities will compete for the "coveted Golden Thighmaster award." Lit Life: Fall literary-series lineups; a Seattle7Writers fundraiser 2012-07-20T23:34:04Z

“It was the book he was born to write,” explains novelist Janet Fitch, a longtime friend and supporter, who helped get “No Stopping Train” published and contributed a heartfelt introduction. Les Plesko to be celebrated at UCLA 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Nimrud was excavated by a series of archaeological missions since the 19th century including in the 1950s by British archaeologist Max Mallowan, who was accompanied by his wife, detective novelist Agatha Christie. Drones fly over ancient Nimrud to help secure Assyrian ruins 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

Emeritus professor at Toronto University Keith Oatley, a cognitive psychologist and novelist, decided to test the assumption and goes through his findings. AUDIO: Is reading fiction good for you? 2011-07-07T06:49:34Z

This potent structure, a therapeutic bridge between two infernos, feels like the work of a novelist hitting his stride. Review | Johannes Anyuru’s latest novel is an award winner in Sweden. If there’s any justice, some of that success will cross the Atlantic. 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

The story follows a middle-aged East Coast novelist, Patrick, as he travels to and around Los Angeles for the movie adaptation of one of his books. Alexandra Kleeman Finds Reality All Too Surreal 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

An epic story of two families and two houses spanning the entire 20th century, it promises to enhance its author's claim to the title of best British novelist working at the moment. Books in 2011 ? from the new Alan Hollinghurst to David Foster Wallace's unfinished The Pale King 2011-01-02T00:05:20Z

“I thought you were writing about consent,” someone says to Arabella, the aspiring novelist at the center of the story. Review: Michaela Coel Is Riveting in ‘I May Destroy You’ 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Victory for Carey would have made him the only three-time winner and hopes had been high, with the Australian novelist believing it his best work and Motion praising him as a modern-day Dickens. Howard Jacobson wins the Booker for The Finkler Question 2010-10-12T20:48:00Z

As a novelist, Smith, who died in 1972, was never a sentimentalist. Review | ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ was a classic. Does Betty Smith’s follow-up warrant reconsideration? 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z

The novelist agreed that in this book he deliberately imitated cinematic narrative devices – particularly a movement from almost "unbearable close-up" to a view of events "on a long lens and a very wide shot". Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-07-13T21:55:01Z

Australian novelist Carey will learn later Tuesday whether he has pulled off a hat trick with his historical novel "Parrot and Olivier in America." Winner of Booker Prize to be announced in London 2010-10-12T12:01:00Z

Some children's novelists limit themselves to what they think their readers are capable of; Handler creates his own fantastical world and invites us to find our own way through it. Who Could That Be at This Hour? by Lemony Snicket – review 2012-11-15T08:00:08Z

The Hollywood Reporter quotes an insider at the Austin, Texas festival who said Paul Schrader's film, based on a screenplay by the novelist Bret Easton Ellis, has "an ugliness and a deadness to it". SXSW follows Sundance in rejecting Lindsay Lohan's The Canyons 2013-01-24T12:28:27Z

Robert Louis Stevenson will forever be an erotic novelist in my mind. Tales of a female sex addict 2014-02-18T00:00:00Z

“I know of only one thing that you can do well in Lyon, and that’s eat,” the 19th-century French novelist Stendhal remarked. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Lyon, France 2012-04-12T15:55:32Z

You live in Los Angeles, which most of us think of as a city of screenwriters rather than novelists. Rachel Kushner: 'I know what it feels like to crash a motorcycle at 140mph' 2013-06-08T23:05:01Z

In July, we asked five writers — three novelists, a memoirist and a poet — to recount times when a national park left a mark on their lives. National Parks, 100 Years In 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

He was rescued and he recovered, but the real story of their marriage and honeymoon may never be known — which provides ideal material for the novelist. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

This second half of this novelist’s magnum opus completes a drug war version of “The Godfather,” with all the sweep, intimacy and searing power that implies. The Top Books of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Nigerian novelist and outspoken feminist, drew criticism from transgender activists after suggesting that the experiences of transgender women are different from women whose gender was assigned female at birth. Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie angers transgender community 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

But the novelist reportedly went through the final script and removed all Marber’s tinkerings, threatening to alert her fans on social media if she were challenged. Fifty Shades of Grey screenwriter says film is 'too painful' to watch 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

This is a note of mea culpa from a novelist who was once skeptical of Hollywood, and paid a price for it. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Hollywood “Crack-Up” 2013-06-09T15:00:00Z

A central figure is novelist and essayist Aldous Huxley, an early advocate of psychedelic drugs. Work-in-progress 'LSD: The Opera' is powerful musical theater 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

There are all kinds of tricks used by novelists, scriptwriters and filmmakers to keep the reader or viewer turning the page, or tuning in next week. How video games suck you in: “Our sense of time becomes yoked, not to the ticking of the clock, but to the pattern of our interactions” 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z

It had a novelist's sharpness of language and gaze, and almost never resorted to cliche. Young Arts Critics 2010: critical conditions 2010-05-24T20:30:00Z

In October, the novelist Rachel Khong will start a podcast called “Trash/Treasure”; each episode will center on how a specific container is made, and the ways in which it’s reused. Finding Memories, and Mom’s Sewing Stuff, in a Reused Cookie Tin 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

British copyright law states the novelist, or their estate, has ownership of their work until 70 years after the author's death. Spin-off, sequel or sell out? 2013-12-29T02:44:58Z

In this travelogue-meets-mystery documentary, Shaik, a novelist, shows her grandfather’s picture to villagers who have never heard of him, and who question whether this American visitor has pure motives. ‘The Bengali’ Review: A Woman Reconnecting to Her Roots 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Because he has a novelist’s command of the evocative detail, there are times when a precisely rendered moment seems to open a window onto a hauntingly expansive view. Theater Review: Martin Moran’s ‘All the Rage’ at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2013-01-31T03:00:51Z

The novelist was adamant that 2010's Nemesis, his 31st book, would be his last. Philip Roth picks his best novels 2013-01-17T14:43:49Z

We see this lot of pretentious literary folks through the eyes of regular-guy Strike, who, after reading some of Quine’s perverse work, wonders if the novelist was mentally unwell. J. K. Rowling’s New Crime Novel, ‘The Silkworm’ 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

Best of all is her demonstration that the supposedly demure, sheltered novelist knew all about the profiteering imperialism that subsidised the leisure of her landed gentry. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z

And he all but shrugs when asked why he would pile a career as a novelist on top of an already overstuffed portfolio. Olaf Olafsson, ?Restoration? Author and Time Warner Manager 2012-03-05T16:16:53Z

The novelists were to propose George Gissing's statement that "The only good biographies are to be found in novels." Will Waterstone's have a significant future selling books in Britain? 2012-12-21T22:54:01Z

Scott Frank, an Oscar nominee for writing the screenplays for "Out of Sight" and "Logan," said he's also working on another project inspired by the works of hardboiled detective novelist Dashiell Hammett. After "Queen’s Gambit," Anya Taylor-Joy and Scott Frank reuniting for Nabokov adaptation 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

By 1960, Dulles’ eagerness to please Kennedy extended to developing a fondness for the imaginative killing methods of James Bond, the British fictional spy code-named “007,” created by novelist Ian Fleming. JFK loved James Bond: How Ian Fleming's spy novels influenced the CIA 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

Sheila Heti, a Canadian novelist who became fast friends with July after interviewing her a few years ago, said she was startled by a late draft of "The First Bad Man." Miranda July sheds her pixie image with novel 'The First Bad Man' 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Our hero is one such: drummer in a Rio band featuring more facial hair than a 19th-century novelists' convention. The new Heineken advert 2013-05-25T05:00:00Z

Costanzo said he still did not know the novelist’s real identity. 'Brilliant Friend' couldn't be done in English, says TV director 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

She started writing fiction in 1997 and was encouraged by the novelist Rick Moody, a family friend, to pursue it seriously. Miranda July Blurs Fiction and Reality to Promote a Novel 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

But the book’s advance buzz is an unlikely triumph for a version of a ritualistic text that was spearheaded by two lauded experimental novelists from Brooklyn, Mr. Foer and Nathan Englander. A Thoughtful New Translation of the Haggadah 2012-03-09T22:54:09Z

He also told me it was another novelist, of equal fame, intelligence and reputation, who had given him his first sample of the drug. The drugs do work: my life on brain enhancers 2013-05-03T22:00:00Z

"An awful lot of writers are clinging on by their fingernails anyway," said romance novelist Jenny Haddon, treasurer of the Romantic Novelists' Association. Authors fear cut in income from library loans 2010-06-28T14:52:00Z

“In many people’s eyes, he was the greatest novelist of the Holocaust,” Charles R. Larson, a literature professor at American University in Washington, where Mr. Lustig taught for 31 years, said on Monday. Arnost Lustig, Writer of the Holocaust, Is Dead at 84 2011-03-05T05:58:42Z

This seems remarkably humble and honest, considering how many people have been up in arms about Dylan winning the writing prize at the expense of a poet or a novelist. The Rambling Glory of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Speech 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

Its independent bookstore champions local ecologist and novelist Wendell Berry; the coffee shop next door fosters artists and musicians as well as green community projects. Spirited away: on the bourbon trail in Kentucky 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

The Wall Street Journal accused the novelist of disingenuousness: "He reads like a university don telling dirty jokes to astonish the groundlings while never letting them forget how well he knows his Milton." Lionel Asbo savaged, Martin Amis mauled by US media 2012-08-23T16:55:00Z

Stuart was one of four debut novelists on this year’s shortlist. Douglas Stuart Wins Booker Prize for ‘Shuggie Bain’ 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

I’ve often had this reaction to writers of nonfiction, but never before to a novelist. John Cleese Intends to Have His Unread Books Buried With Him 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

After calling on authors to lead virtual writing classes, she got responses from acclaimed novelists Meg Wolitzer and Lily King. Independent bookstores survived the rise of online retail. Coronavirus poses bigger challenges. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

Heard’s legal team also alleged that a visit to her ailing friend, the 67-year-old novelist behind the film Hellraiser, Clive Barker, caused a serious row between the couple. Jealous Johnny Depp ‘tried to stop Amber Heard sex scenes’, court told 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z

Last year, the Booker was won by New Zealand novelist Eleanor Catton for The Luminaries, becoming the youngest recipient of the award at the age of 28. Booker longlist set to be revealed 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

When novelist Stefan Kiesbye and his wife heard their dog banging on their bedroom door in the middle of the night, they thought it was because he’s a restless rescue. Books: Surviving the California wildfires, George Saunders wins the Man Booker and more 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

“What’s the big deal about the footnotes?” one novelist friends groused to me. David Foster Wallace and the Perils of “Litchat” 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

Among the questions before panelists including Canadian novelist Margaret Attwood, "Wild Swans" author Jung Chang and environmentalist George Monbiot - "Which freedoms are you prepared to trade for greater security?" and "What makes you laugh?" Hay book fest marks 25th at "Woodstock of the mind" 2012-05-24T15:07:35Z

Alice achieved unexpected global fame as a novelist and has relocated to the Irish coast after a nervous breakdown, while Eileen works as an assistant at a Dublin literary magazine. 19 New Books Coming in September 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Move on to “When We Were the Kennedys,” by the novelist and playwright Monica Wood, a memoir of growing up in the mill town of Mexico, Maine. Read Your Way Through Maine 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z

The movie will be based on material novelist Stephen King used as a prologue to "The Shining." Mark Romanek in talks to direct 'The Shining' prequel 'Overlook Hotel' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Later, having dinner at the Wolseley, I ran into a Scottish novelist who told me that this production made him “understand Halliburton.” London Theater Scene Echoes Economic Woes 2010-07-20T21:34:00Z

Since the birth of the thriller, in late 19th-century Britain, spy novelists have prided themselves on their ability to presage disaster. The Trump era is posing some major challenges for thriller novelists 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

“I made the reverse journey, from Morocco to France, which is much more banal,” Slimani, one of France’s highest-profile novelists, said in an interview at a private members’ club in Paris last month. Leïla Slimani Has Written About a Sex Addict and a Murderous Nanny. Next Up: Her Own Family. 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z

Trey Ellis is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright and Associate Professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. The Revolution Will Be Handheld 2012-07-05T14:02:00Z

During the early 19th century, the duel fell out of literary favor because it lacked intensity and spontaneity: Romantic poets and novelists preferred honest, impassioned murder to coolly calculated encounters. The literary history of duels, those absurdly formal fights to the death 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

He is therefore, at time of writing, the year's most experienced and prolific debutant, and since first-time novelists deserve a degree of leniency it should be said that nothing objectionable appears in before page 10. Heartbreak by Craig Raine 2010-07-04T11:43:00Z

He was a man of a thousand American parts — novelist, stand-up comic, travel writer, impresario, capitalist, full-time celebrity and coruscating social critic — whose ear for dialogue, nuance, slang and absurdity seldom failed him. ‘Mark Twain’s America’ and ‘Huck Finn’s America’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Sean Penn is not up to it as a novelist, but who knows? Review | What is Sean Penn thinking? His debut novel is a mess, again. 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

"My job is as a novelist and if someone reads my work and thinks they want to put it on the big screen, that's great. But if they don't, that's great too." Kidman memory movie buoys author 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Though the shenanigans tend to get the press, the hotel’s more impressive legacy is its role as muse for generations of artists, photographers, novelists and screenwriters, of which Ms. Coppola is only the latest. The Chateau Marmont Is Ready for Its Close-Up 2010-12-03T23:28:00Z

No surprise that it’s such a rich subject for novelists. The Many Uses (and Abuses) of Shame 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

The interviewer, a female journalist, asks probing questions that unnerve the novelist. A Playwright of Few Words 2011-05-24T13:25:00Z

As well as being a novelist, Millet holds a degree in environmental policy and works for the Center for Biological Diversity, an organization focused on protecting endangered species. Lydia Millet is not as popular as she should be. This novel will change that. 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

Yet graphic novelists and other comics storytellers adapted and rose to ongoing challenges. 2020 graphic novels and comic books: Five trends that defined the year 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

I once said to her I wasn’t sure I’d ever make a novelist. What Moves Nina Stibbe Most in a Book? ‘Dogs’ 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Darnielle seems to be indicating his agreement with something the novelist Richard Ford has said: “People always know more than I do, but what I know, I know.” ‘Wolf in White Van,’ by John Darnielle 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

“I think I’m a more natural novelist, and that’s why it took six novels before I got a book of stories together,” Walter said recently over coffee in downtown Spokane. Spokane native Jess Walter releases short-story collection 2013-02-12T18:06:23Z

The most prominent of these novelists is DeLillo, whose magisterial “Libra” traces the tragic arc of Lee Harvey Oswald’s sad and angry life. Review | John F. Kennedy’s assassination sets a thriller in motion in ‘November Road’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

For novelists, youth seems to last, officially at least and according to Granta, until you are 40 – but eventually, time catches up with us all. Experience enriches fiction, but it doesn't reward authors 2011-02-03T12:21:38Z

For George Eliot, "the greatest benefit we owe to the ... novelist, is the extension of our sympathies". Novels don't need to be 'nice' 2010-10-19T10:46:00Z

It can be argued that novelists often borrow from their own lives, or from the lives of people they know; but the ethics are never clear-cut, especially when the book causes others distress. New Fiction About Family Members Gone Missing 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Hank Green, a novelist and longtime host of quirky YouTube educational videos, announced on Friday that he was recently diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a form of cancer. Hank Green, Novelist and YouTube Star, Announces He Has Cancer 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

Playwright and novelist Michael Frayn also received a special accolade, saying it was a "great honour" to be recognised. Mirren and Incident bag Oliviers 2013-04-29T07:27:49Z

In her new book Conflict Is Not Abuse, novelist and Aids historian Sarah Schulman writes about how the transmission of HIV to millions worldwide is a normative human experience unworthy of criminalization or stigma. Why did it take so long for science to debunk the Aids 'Patient Zero'? | Steven W Thrasher 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Stone was widely regarded as one of the most significant novelists of his generation. Robert Stone, award-winning author of ‘A Hall of Mirrors,’ ‘Dog Soldiers,’ dies at 77 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Horrified by the deceptions perpetrated by novelists, dramatists, historians and biographers, the reading public turns in desperation to poets. Review | ‘Dead Souls’ is a witty, sharp, cruel critique of literary culture. But it’s not for everyone. 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

“Witty dialogue, great characters, steamy sex,” says the novelist Lisa Gardner, whose latest thriller is “One Step Too Far”: “What’s not to like?” Lisa Gardner, the Thriller Writer Who Loves Historical Romance 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

And though the novelist Jeffrey Eugenides said he was quite sure that sending this letter was akin to “shouting into a void,” something he’s used to as a fiction writer, he was still hopeful. In Open Letter, 65 Writers and Artists Urge Trump to Reconsider Visa Ban 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

One of her early manuscripts landed in the hands of the novelist Ford Madox Ford, whose reputation was larger than it is today. The Life of Jean Rhys, a Uniquely Brilliant and Thorny Writer 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

And it's the imagination which powers the novelist's work, he continues. Tim Pears's 'small acts of resistance' 2010-03-18T14:00:00Z

Many poets and novelists have practiced exotic colour writing: "azure" and "cerulean" are the aesthetes' favourites. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z

The novelist also has some choice words for his fellow authors. Robert Louis Stevenson on writing: lose the 'twaddling detail' 2013-03-20T07:00:11Z

Who are your favorite writers – novelists, nonfiction, journalists, poets – working today? James Rollins: By the Book 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

A novelist might be a misogynist if he chooses. Howard Jacobson: In praise of bad boys' books 2012-10-05T21:55:17Z

The film, which opens Jan. 13, is told through the perspective of a novelist, Rama, who obsessively attends the trial, as in fact Diop did. When the Camera Can’t Turn Away, These Women Force Us to Listen 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

And when you’re a novelist you always want as much trouble as possible. Can a literary thriller heal divides? Silas House’s “Southernmost” isn’t preaching to eit... 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Story collections from novelists sometimes give readers the sense that the author has dug up several half-finished, long-abandoned works from graduate school, dusted them off, revived them, then cauterized them with an ending. The Heroines in Curtis Sittenfeld’s First Story Collection Are All Grown Up 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

On Monday at 7 p.m. the novelist David Mitchell will read from his latest work of fiction, “The Bone Clocks”; 212-253-0810; tinyurl.com/mexste. Spare Times for Sept. 12-18 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

The veteran spy novelist and former British intelligence official casts an eye on Brexit in his latest thriller. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From John le Carré to Adam Rippon 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

The Times article notes that Rhodes is a published short-story writer and aspiring novelist who is a skilled “storyteller.” Obama official says he pushed a ‘narrative’ to media to sell the Iran nuclear deal 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

These playwrights, critics and fantasy novelists are Orwell's heirs but they project themselves very differently. Radio previews: The Newsagent's Window and more 2013-02-02T06:00:20Z

The novelist enjoys a small-town life colored by coffee at McDonald’s and salads from Burger King, reading Britain’s Times Literary Supplement and every day feeding the town ducks. Where Has Harper Lee Been? 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

In 1976, Zanuck and Brown announced a much-publicized deal with the estate of novelist Margaret Mitchell to produce a sequel to “Gone With the Wind.” Oscar-Winning Producer Richard Zanuck Dead at 77 2012-07-13T22:03:50Z

There Marilynne Robinson, the award-winning novelist and essayist, became her teacher, thesis adviser and mentor, putting her in touch with an agent who quickly sold her book to Knopf. Buzz Over Ayana Mathis’s ‘Twelve Tribes of Hattie’ 2012-12-10T22:42:33Z

But few American novelists get as many rewards from their investment in ideas. ‘The Slippage,’ by Ben Greenman, and More 2013-04-24T21:29:52Z

This is the sort of thing that happens when novelists get together, Kingsolver says. Ann Patchett Will Eventually Discuss Her Book 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

Jason Wallace, the second debut novelist on the list, moved to Zimbabwe from London at the age of 12 after his mother remarried and the family emigrated. Booktrust teenage prize shortlist spans time, space and genre 2010-09-07T10:34:00Z

On that fateful day, however, Carolyn See — a critic, novelist, nonfiction writer and Californian, who died Wednesday — cut through all the New York-centric pretense. Post critic Carolyn See stood up to tastemakers and became one of her own 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

It is unashamedly the first best of British-Hyphen novelists, and even within "British" , it seems as if writers are keen to explore the specificities of regionalism rather than the bland Tescopolis. How to choose the Best Young British Novelists 2013-04-16T12:43:52Z

Much like a murder mystery novelist, Hanbury must dole out just enough clues to fascinate and flummox . . . but not tip the hand. Maintaining the "Magpie Murders" main title mystery: The clues, the murders and a bird masquerade 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z

Mostly, he fixed his gaze within a limited tradition of white, male novelists. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

As a young man in the 1970s, the novelist David Plante had a talent for ingratiating himself with famous older women. Deep Cuts: Writers and the Women They Worship 2013-04-17T19:07:02Z

"Anything I shall ever write will owe so much, so much, to you," wrote Murdoch to Queneau, a married French novelist, poet and publisher with whom she corresponded between 1946 and 1975. Letters reveal Iris Murdoch's frustrated passion for Raymond Queneau 2010-04-26T11:33:00Z

Salinger biography are claiming they have cracked one of publishing's greatest mysteries: What "The Catcher in the Rye" novelist was working on during the last half century of his life. New biography claims more Salinger books due out 2013-08-25T17:08:53Z

In 2018, the Polish novelist was recognized for “Flights,” which she calls a “constellation novel,” owing to its fragmentary form and genre-defying style, and which won that year’s Man Booker Prize. The 2019 National Book Awards Longlist: Translated Literature 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

It’s 1997 and a 31-year-old would-be novelist is waiting tables in Harvard Square and mourning the recent death of her mother. New in Paperback: ‘A Children’s Bible’ and ‘The Education of an Idealist’ 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

But he was widely considered to be one of the greatest British novelists of his time. John le Carré Fans Are Getting One More Novel 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

The site’s “negatives,” the award-winning Native American novelist wrote, “increasingly outweigh its positives.” Will leaving Twitter make life better for these outspoken liberals? 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

But the novelist is far gentler than the screenwriter, which we first see in the way Miss Havisham is rendered in the script and through Colman's interpretation. Olivia Colman on her "Great Expectations" for Miss Havisham: “There's such darkness inside her" 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

In her first story collection, which contains some of Smith’s most vibrant, original fiction, the British novelist moves beyond traditional narrative into wilder, less charted territory. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

Working with accomplished writers every day might intimidate some aspiring novelists, but Ms. Halliday found it exhilarating, and began to think about writing fiction. Lisa Halliday’s Debut Novel Is Drawing Comparisons to Philip Roth. Though Not for the Reasons You Might Think. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

"Koch has an extraordinary power of evoking place," novelist Graham Greene once wrote, "and I feel now that Tasmania is part of my memory." Author Christopher Koch dies aged 81 2013-09-27T16:07:52Z

The 16th-century novelist Miguel de Cervantes framed his fictional story of the knight-errant Don Quixote as the translation of a recovered Arabic manuscript. The Enduring Echoes of Moorish Spain 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

Rushdie, however, seems strangely unwilling to make the same concession to Mo Yan as, from the vantage point of his "free" society, he repeatedly condemns a fellow novelist working in an "unfree" one. Why Salman Rushdie should stick to holding Obama to account 2013-01-04T08:00:07Z

The essayist and novelist David Shields, whose forthcoming book is “The Very Last Interview,” used to idolize Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” Why David Shields Can’t Read the ‘Greatest Book Ever Written’ Anymore 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

True enough, but no excuse for a novelist, or his editor, failing to tone down the foolery. Book review: In ‘The Big Seven’ by Jim Harrison, a detective behaving badly 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

An intriguing possibility is Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, whose work is notoriously challenging but who recently won the Man Booker International prize — racking up other awards can be seen as a path to the Nobel. Will Don DeLillo win the Nobel Prize in literature? 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Woods, who was also a swashbuckling licensed private jet plane pilot and trans-Atlantic sailor with homes in New York, Maine and Florida, tacked into his career as a novelist somewhat haphazardly. Stuart Woods, Prolific Best-Selling Thriller Author, Dies at 84 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

Ned Beauman is one of those rare novelists who can dream up intricate, incongruous plots, pepper them with historical facts, whip in biting British humor, and just like that — they become almost believable. Ned Beauman's 'Glow' puts an unconventional spin on a thriller plot 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

What would novelists and filmmakers do without flashbacks, prefigurations and parallel subplots, this last technique immortalized in the catchphrase “Meanwhile, back at the ranch”? ‘Meanwhile, back at the ranch’ and other storytelling tricks explained in ‘Plots’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

And the novelist, driven by his or her imagination, will offer a wealth of answers. The lying art of historical fiction 2010-08-06T15:44:00Z

Ms. Marciano, who learned English as a teenager, became a novelist in Kenya in the ’90s. Académie Française Honor Highlights Fluid National Allegiances Among Writers 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

“Strange Flowers,” Ryan’s sixth book, shows an exceptionally gifted novelist distancing himself from his characters. A Novel Follows ‘Strange Flowers’ in an Insular Irish Village 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

Yet many – probably the majority – of successful literary novelists had taken English literature degrees. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z

Before the first world war, the threat of becoming "unsexed" was used against the suffragettes, scaring some women into joining the Anti-Suffrage League founded in 1908 by the novelist Mrs Humphry Ward. Why women fight women 2012-11-27T19:40:01Z

What Priestley, who took himself and his art very seriously, thought about being described as a holiday novelist can only be imagined. JB Priestley: adventures of the 'tradesman of letters' 2012-11-09T22:55:06Z

He conceded that the British horror novelist Clive Barker was “better than I am now” and “a lot more energetic.” Why Stephen King Planned to Quit Writing Horror After 'It' 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Poet, novelist and performer Eileen Myles joins the creator of Amazon’s “Transparent” for a discussion about ways of representing queerness in literature and mass media. Datebook: A show tied to the election, Cuban posters, new American galleries at the Huntington 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

This Jurassic film occupies a museum mile that also includes the new/old "Top Gun," "Stranger Things" and '80s and '90s novelists like Christopher Pike. "Jurassic World: Dominion” is not a movie. It's a museum 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

It was the rare film of Graham Greene's work that the novelist was happy with, the only example of Orson Welles' that the actor liked well enough to watch on television. The superb, thrilling 'Third Man' returns in a brilliant restoration 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z

In it, she distinguished between journalists and historians, on the one hand, and novelists, on the other. A Daughter of Bangladeshi Revolutionaries Makes Sense of Life After War 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

But as a writer, as a novelist, names help to identify a character, and place a character in the world. Q&A: Mystery Writer Walter Mosley 2010-03-25T09:40:00Z

When the essayist and novelist Jenny Diski, who died last week at 68, learned she had inoperable lung cancer, her first impulse was to make a “Breaking Bad” joke. Review: Jenny Diski’s ‘In Gratitude,’ an Uphill Life on and Off Cancer Road 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

That tactic succeeded, and soon actress Sarah Bernhardt and novelist Edith Wharton were wrapping themselves in his ensembles, all luxurious yet conventional—as was Doucet’s first important collection of art and furnishings. A Look at Fashion Designer Jacques Doucet's Collectibles 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

Written by Welsh poet and novelist Owen Sheers, the Easter production was the last and largest of a series of National Theatre Wales "moving productions" in its first year. Sheen 'crucified' in Passion play 2011-04-24T21:57:21Z

The five-day event was scheduled for the 20th to the 24th of August, and Calder assembled a staggeringly eclectic line of speakers: established novelists and poets, new voices, prominent critics. How the Edinburgh writers' conference changed the world of literature 2012-08-11T15:58:34Z

The greatest of those were adaptations of other novelists' work: "Strangers on a Train" by Patricia Highsmith, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and "Double Indemnity," written by James M. Cain. Raymond Chandler to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

McCarthy, who published his debut novel, “The Orchard Keeper,” in 1965, has long been recognized as one of America’s greatest living novelists and an heir to Faulkner and Steinbeck. In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

Carroll is a journalist, columnist, novelist and scholar. James Carroll on disarming the memory of Jesus: “America threatens the world with violence in ways that no other country does” 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z

“Destroyer,” a recent comic by the novelist Victor LaValle that transports the story to the age of Black Lives Matter, features two “monsters.” Frankenstein at 200 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Eliot was famously homely, but the trait that was her misfortune as a woman was the making of her as a novelist. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

Franzen says there were aspects of the novelist's life – the interplay of ambition and self-consciousness – that he would discuss with nobody else. Jonathan Franzen: 'I must be near the end of my career ? people are starting to approve' 2010-09-24T23:03:00Z

This horror thriller by the Scottish novelist Russell is set in 1935 Czechoslovakia, where a psychiatrist pursues an experimental treatment on six patients, all notorious killers. New in Paperback: ‘The Source of Self-Regard’ and ‘Horizon’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Portland, Ore., novelist Le Guin is a familiar name not just to fantasy fans but to pretty much everybody in the literary world. Ursula K. Le Guin will receive National Book Foundation award 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

My MFA in nonfiction made me a novelist. Too real for reality TV — or even memoir: The new novels that dare use fiction to reveal secret truths 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

In one of her paroxysms of self-doubt, Bechdel quotes a passage from Woolf where the novelist notes she has opted to "banish the soul" from her diary. Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel – review 2012-05-24T08:00:02Z

Kindly reproduced by Thames and Hudson Ltd Beryl Bainbridge's eminence as a novelist eclipsed her other, hidden, talent – that of a painter. Beryl Bainbridge exhibition showcases acclaimed author's hidden talent 2012-11-22T16:58:43Z

The heavy-stock program printed for the show details an 18-month collaborative gestation with musicians, actors, light and set and production designers, the novelist David Mitchell, 3-D animators, an illusionist and puppeteers. Kate Bush Returns to the Stage, and Her Fans Are There to Welcome Her 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Or the rise of the killing notion that a novelist cannot imagine himself or herself into any situation. Dread, War and Ambivalence: Literature Since the Towers Fell 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

He also reflects on his own activity as a poet, essayist, filmmaker and novelist. ‘Pasolini’ Review: One Rebellious Filmmaker’s Tribute to Another 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

It was, for a novelist on only his third book and in his mid-30s, an astoundingly accomplished performance. David Mitchell: 'I don't want to project myself as this great experimenter' 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z

Mexico's most celebrated novelist, died last month age 83. Philip Roth scoops Asturias award and pays tribute to Carlos Fuentes 2012-06-07T11:53:11Z

As for fiction, I fell early under the sway of the historical novelist Mary Renault, whose books set in ancient Greece were a major factor in pushing me toward the study of the classics. Daniel Mendelsohn: By the Book 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

This is a poet’s novel in the former sense, but it’s also a novelist’s novel, so let me begin by emphasizing how powerfully traditional it is. Rosmarie Waldrop’s Novel of the In-Between 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

Her future husband, the novelist Alberto Moravia, talked her out of this suicide mission at the last minute. Moments in Reading That Salvaged an Often Sour Year 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

When her narrator, a novelist, wondered if perhaps what she most wanted was to be a celebrity, it seemed at once a plausible confession and a cultural indictment. Mother of All Decisions: Sheila Heti’s New Novel Weighs Whether to Have a Child 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

The script is by Christopher Hope, Daniel’s father, a novelist and poet who left South Africa in 1975 to escape censorship. ‘A Distant Drum’ Recalls the Life of Nathaniel Nakasa 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

Ballard's fascination with Freud – he called him, only half-playfully, "the great novelist of the 20th century" – and Freud's artistic progeny, the surrealists, resulted in the domination of his work by symbolism and febrile mental states. A brief survey of the short story part 26: JG Ballard 2010-06-10T15:24:00Z

Some British authors fretted that the American publishing juggernaut will drown out the voices of lesser known Commonwealth novelists such as Catton, Bulawayo and Ozeki. New Zealand's Eleanor Catton wins 2013 Man Booker prize 2013-10-16T00:15:22Z

"You have neuroscientists and novelists and politicians and warriors and thinkers, and it's the interaction between them," Florence said. Making Hay: British book fest conquers the world 2010-06-02T11:37:00Z

One of his closest friends, the novelist Anthony Powell, suggested in his journals that Orwell's politics would have drifted rightwards. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z

He thought historical novelists ought to mark in bold type the "bits they made up". Is fictionalising historical figures OK? 2010-06-01T21:30:00Z

Modern crime novelists in particular tend to grant their villains rich if disfigured inner lives that are typically revealed in disquieting monologues. A psychiatrist and a sociopath face off in Lisa Scottoline’s latest thriller 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

I love novels and I really wanted to be a novelist. A young playwright in demand: Rajiv Joseph 2011-03-31T19:46:05Z

The collection had been formed by the eminent African-American novelist Ralph Ellison. John Edmonds and the Allure of Africa 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

While Ms. Feiffer later became a novelist, she left her most indelible imprint on publishing by finding and honing talent in others. Judy Feiffer, Who Helped Develop Two Top Memoirs, Dies at 87 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

A selection of her books has recently been published in an Everyman’s Library edition, with an introduction by the novelist Rachel Kushner. Marguerite Duras’s ‘The Lover,’ and Notebooks That Enrich It 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Marshal Raylan Givens, based on a character created by novelist Elmore Leonard. The new 'Justified' on FX is a Tuesday TV pick 2010-03-15T23:56:00Z

Nell Stevens, a young British would-be novelist, set herself what she desperately hoped would be a productive challenge. Weekly Culture Review: Pulitzers, Kendrick Lamar, and More 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

“It was almost stupid how disarmed the people were by that,” said one of them, the novelist Joshua Cohen. How Hollywood and the Media Fueled the Political Rise of J.D. Vance 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z

Self, the Man Booker-shortlisted author of the unorthodox 2012 novel Umbrella, points out that early novelists such as Cervantes and Laurence Sterne were happy to play with format. Top novelists look to ebooks to challenge the rules of fiction 2013-03-10T00:06:11Z

This development is variously attributed to her exceptional brain waves and to the duality that novelists share with their characters. Dean Koontz’s ‘Ashley Bell’: A colorful tale that veers toward the otherworldly 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

“Can we no longer read ‘Othello’ because Shakespeare wasn’t black?” the novelist Francine Prose wrote recently in an essay about sensitivity readers and censorship in The New York Review of Books. In an Era of Online Outrage, Do Sensitivity Readers Result in Better Books, or Censorship? 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z

The reclusive Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist announced Tuesday that in July she will publish “Go Set a Watchman,” a kind of sequel to “To Kill a Mockingbird.” 55 years after ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Scout returns in new-old novel 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Vivid social history full of match girls and toshers from a novelist who loved playing games with historical events. Teen book club: Lydia Syson's top 10 historical novels 2012-11-29T16:39:14Z

But in the hands of an accomplished novelist such as Berlinski, no character’s assigned roles are what they seem to be. ‘Peacekeeping’ review: Haiti endures despite outsiders’ good (and bad) intentions 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

On the other hand, no previous novelist had Wells's ability to decode the assumptions on which a certain kind of middle-class life was based. David Lodge on HG Wells 2011-03-11T10:00:01Z

Crime writers enjoy the kind of sales literary novelists can only dream about. The class pyramid of British literature 2010-03-22T12:01:00Z

Keith Oatley, a novelist and emeritus professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto, has for many years run a research group interested in the psychology of fiction. Is Reading the New Therapy? 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

The few who made it, like Goldsmith or that industrious novelist, anthologist, editor and translator, Tobias Smollett, might naturally feel ashamed of their sordid pasts. ‘Brothers of the Quill’: How an 18th-century hack found his literary footing 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Mason, who solved murder mysteries with his savvy as a cross-examiner, is the creation of novelist Erle Stanley Gardner. Barbara Hale, who played Della Street on ‘Perry Mason,’ dies at 94 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

It was chosen by the American novelist, Richard Ford, who lauded Keegan's "patient attention to life's vast consequence and finality" and her "thrilling" and "sparkling" prose style. Claire Keegan 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

He's also an acclaimed novelist and his an unusually luxy study. Neil Jordan: post your questions for the Byzantium and Crying Game director 2013-05-24T12:16:01Z

The US National Park Service celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2016, famously called “America’s best idea” by novelist and historian Wallace Stegner. Crusade ends as Indiana Dunes becomes newest national park in US 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

“That was really just right,” says Mike Lupica, the sports columnist and novelist who was one of Leonard’s closest friends. Elmore Leonard shoots his way into the Library of America

Some sharp people are involved on the writing end, including novelist Charles Yu, author of “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.” “Westworld”’s promising preview: HBO could have its next great show on its hands 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

The fiction selections demonstrate the continued vitality of the novel, with several ambitious new novelists on the list. ArtsBeat Blog: Book Review Podcast: 100 Notable Books of 2011 2011-12-02T23:29:23Z

What’s more challenging to write about, human love and desire, or the life of a solitary novelist? Andrew Sean Greer on Writing and Winning 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

The new edition includes a rapturous introduction from the novelist Danzy Senna, who writes that the novel “anticipated and influenced much of what the culture would begin to find funny.” Taking a Late-in-Life Victory Lap, Thanks to His Novel’s ‘Lunatic Energy’ 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

It makes sense that Barack Obama would describe Marilynne Robinson as one of his favorite novelists. Marilynne Robinson talks religion, fear and the American spirit: “The left, at a basic level, lost courage, because they don’t know how to deal with the proclaimed religiosity of the other side” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

Evelyn Waugh described Raymond Chandler in the late 1940s as the greatest living American novelist. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z

But he downplays his own fate of being called America's greatest living novelist. Philip Roth reflects on novel's decline and 'Nemesis' 2010-10-05T16:26:00Z

Ms. Georges, 39, is a graphic novelist, pet portraitist and podcaster. Two Animal Lovers Meet at a Tiki Bar 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

Boo blends the clear-eyed candour of a journalist with a novelist's sense of drama in a modern morality tale. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z

“I think I write fairly well, but I learned during that year that I am not a novelist by any stretch of the imagination,” says Robertson. Julian Robertson's Empire Down Under 2012-10-22T13:30:26Z

I will occasionally read classics — Dickens, Tolstoy, Proust — or terrific contemporary novelists. Jane Fonda Likes to Curl Up With a Good Book, Among the Dead 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Later, however, when she became a novelist, she realized that purposefulness is fundamental to living systems, to the structure of art forms as well as organisms. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z

Few novelists have conveyed so viscerally the incomprehensible cruelty to which victims of white supremacists were subjected for so long. Greg Iles concludes his spectacular Natchez Burning trilogy 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Michael’s friend Damian, a frustrated novelist, sneaks smokes in his backyard and wonders why he let his practical, maternal wife, Stephanie, drag him to a semidetached house in the hinterlands. A Novel of Domesticity and Its Discontents, London-Style 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Mevlut remains on the edge of all this action; like a novelist, a peddler sees life from outside, at an angle. ‘A Strangeness in My Mind’ review: Orhan Pamuk’s love letter to Turkey 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

For a novelist, the use of such personages is restrictive as much as it is fruitful. Regeneration by Pat Barker 2012-08-24T21:55:08Z

Precisely! cried the aspiring writer, thinking not only of an enormous number of successful contemporary novelists whom he despised but also of his own work. A Writer’s Justification 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Don’t some of the incidents in the Bible suggest an occasional coldness, even a “dark side”? This is the quicksand that draws novelists. A Norwegian Novel Complicates the Canon of New Testament Fiction 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

A fellow novelist once said of Bainbridge: “She transmogrifies events in her own way.” Beryl Bainbridge: The writer who used tragedy as an entry point into farce 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

He plays a novelist who is devastated by the death of his wife but also caught up in a new romance. Dafoe says he's proud of Green Goblin 2010-10-08T18:20:00Z

There are no novelists or short fiction writers in the 2014 class. MacArthur Fellows include Alison Bechdel, Terrance Hayes 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

The Italian novelist Curzio Malaparte reckoned that Germans feared the "weak" and "defenceless" in a way they did not fear comparably powerful military opponents. Soldatenby Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer – review 2013-01-25T20:00:04Z

And then I started reading about these dime novelists who had to get the work done to get a paycheck and pay the rent, and then they would go on to the next project. CIA agent turned comics writer Tom King on making art in the era of Trump's "absurdity" 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

Again and again, following the trail suggested by her objects, finding directions out by indirections, Byrne opens out Austen's story with a novelist's persistent probing of the evidence. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-02-08T07:00:02Z

Back in the early 1990s, David Foster Wallace wrote an essay urging young American novelists to find a way to come to terms with the role of television in contemporary life. How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z

Yes, Roth is the greatest living American novelist, said 77% of the illustrious panel. Philip Roth is greatest US writer: 7.7 out of 10 readers agree 2013-02-27T17:00:05Z

Many shared novelist Samina Ali’s TED talk, in which Ali explains the origins of the hijab. Gap back-to-school “hijab ad” ignites social media 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

I bought it on a recommendation from novelist Joe Stretch, who told me it was the book that made him want to become a writer. The allure of the first novel 2013-01-12T08:30:01Z

Leonard Cohen, who died two years ago, wore many a fedora — poet, novelist, songwriter, a singer of sorts — but only the last trade, which he took up reluctantly, made him a star. Leonard Cohen’s Posthumous Collection of Poems, Lyrics and Sketches 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

In her books, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Willa Cather celebrated the American prairie. Willa Cather festival returns to tiny Red Cloud, Neb. 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

She herself preferred to cite the Czech novelist Milan Kundera as an abiding influence. Ellen Douglas, Southern Novelist, Dies at 91 2012-11-12T05:37:19Z

We consulted the list of novelists that our predecessors had discussed: some 80 names. The damnable task of being a Man Booker International prize judge 2011-03-30T14:46:06Z

The session was kicked off by novelist Ali Smith with a virtuoso provocation: style, she said, was a kind of roaring with life. Irvine Welsh tears into Booker prize 2012-08-19T19:06:49Z

Mark Slouka, a novelist, offers an intrepid memoir of a chaotic childhood. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

While the novelist Mohammed Hanif praised it as a "poetic meditation on the destructive urges that bind us together", some were uneasy about its twinning of beauty and brutality. Nadeem Aslam: a life in writing 2013-01-26T10:00:03Z

As a novelist, James may be handicapped by the innate mysteriousness of these animal-gods, but, perhaps for this reason, her elephants loom larger than life. Pachyderm unbound: ‘The Tusk That Did the Damage,’ by Tania James 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Besides being a best-selling novelist, Thomas is also a former partner at Lehman Brothers. ‘Fixers’: A financial thriller with cameos by Hillary Clinton and Obama 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

Javier Marías, a Spanish novelist whose elegant style and intricate plots centered on espionage, murder and betrayal won him comparisons to Marcel Proust and Ian Fleming, died on Sunday at his home in Madrid. Javier Marías, to Many the Greatest Living Spanish Novelist, Dies at 70 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z

Gamal al-Ghitani, a former carpet designer who switched careers to become one of Egypt’s most acclaimed novelists, died on Sunday in Cairo. Gamal al-Ghitani, Egyptian Novelist, Dies at 70 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

The novelist Ben Lerner, who scored a breakout critical hit in 2011 with “Leaving the Atocha Station,” starts things off on opening night with a reading from his second novel, “10:04.” Live From the Public Library: Joseph O'Neill, Joyce Carol Oates and Dr. Funkenstein 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

We conduct a transatlantic conversation with two novelists whose latest works are also typographical investigations. Guardian Books podcast: Fiction that pushes at the limits of design 2012-06-22T11:15:22Z

Serpell is a natural social novelist, capable of conjuring a Dickensian range of characters with a painterly eye for detail. Review | ‘The Old Drift’ is a brilliant literary response to generations of bad politics 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

But these are messages a novelist would not put in the mouth of a modern male character unless he was trying to characterize him as an irredeemable sexist. ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The great novelist of Paris, Emile Zola, famously illuminated that city's belly in a novel titled "Le Ventre de Paris." 'London Underground': Ackroyd's account of life beneath the streets 2011-12-01T00:46:04Z

There are novelists, most notably Emma Donoghue in “Room,” who have tried to imagine what a plight like this is like. Books of The Times: A Captivity No Novelist Could Invent 2011-07-17T21:24:39Z

It was an unusual feint that misled no one, least of all Mr. Price’s fellow novelists. Richard Price Finds His Pseudonym for ‘The Whites’ Annoying 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

Marriage has long been ripe material for the modern novelist. 'I Married You for Happiness': the mystery of a lasting marriage 2011-09-14T21:52:04Z

Other festival events announced Tuesday include a conversation with crime novelist Michael Connelly; two musical programs at the Grammy Museum; and the Black List Live, a staged reading of an unproduced Black List script. L.A. Film Festival adds 'Train Your Dragon 2,' '22 Jump Street' 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

And various panels will feature journalists, novelists, comedians and political analysts discussing the Trump presidency, the threat of North Korea and more. Chelsea Manning Headlines New Yorker Festival 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

There's nary a mention of the books Julavits and her second husband, novelist and fellow Columbia professor Ben Marcus, published while she was writing it. 'The Folded Clock' an engaging portrait of a woman's sense of identity 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Book editor and first-time novelist Skyhorse connects us with voices that typically dwell in the background of everyday Los Angeles life. 27 best books of 2010: The Seattle Times looks back at a year of great reading 2010-12-18T01:15:33Z

“I’ve always said I’d like to be known as the novelist or the playwright who also did television news.” he said. Jim Lehrer’s New Play, ‘Bell,’ Is Opening in Washington 2013-09-11T21:49:44Z

Mr. Doherty made his mark in a wide range of cultural endeavors: He worked as a journalist, an editor, an artist, a documentarian and, late in life, an acclaimed novelist. Brian O’Doherty, Art Critic and (Conceptual) Art Creator, Dies at 94 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

But her reach as a professor went beyond students who were destined to become novelists. Toni Morrison’s former students reflect: ‘She had this physical presence, this voice, that just took up space in this very magical way’ 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

But then the media interview seemed his natural forum: it is difficult to think of a more frequently interviewed British novelist. Iain Banks dies aged 59 2013-06-09T17:22:02Z

The two collections belonged to the novelist Rosamond Lehmann and the diarist and writer Frances Partridge, once described by fellow group member Clive Bell as having "the best legs in Bloomsbury". New Bloomsbury archive casts revealing light on Virginia Woolf's death 2010-03-19T12:29:00Z

But in his interview, he characterised crime novelists as "kids from the wrong side of the tracks, the non-literary brigade". The class pyramid of British literature 2010-03-22T12:01:00Z

"Trump is the enemy in this electoral cycle & his defeat is going to take all our energy and fight and togetherness," tweeted novelist Laura van den Berg. Stephen King, Junot Diaz and 600 other authors want to stop Trump 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

“Be good, Lev, and I might reveal who killed Edwin Drood,” the English novelist says to the “War and Peace” author in a moment of telling condescension. The sparks fly when Tolstoy, Jefferson and Dickens meet in the afterlife 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

“I went to a party recently and met someone I had internet known for years, and it felt like a miracle,” said Emily Gould, a novelist. The Welcome Return of the Run-In 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

Books do furnish a room, novelist Anthony Powell observed, but they sure do crowd a house. We’re drowning in old books. But getting rid of them is heartbreaking. 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

And exaggeration, anyway, is what, as a novelist, I do. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z

It is named for novelist and essayist Samuel Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, and it honors humorists who have had an impact on American society. Q-Tip and Lorne Michaels join tribute to Dave Chappelle at Kennedy Center 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. French’s book gave a similar scrutiny to the novelist himself, uncovering his own “suppressed histories,” including his harsh treatment of some of the women in his life. Patrick French, Unsparing Biographer of V.S. Naipaul, Dies at 56 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

One of Kehlmann’s hallmarks as a novelist is the impish humor that he injects into bleak and absurd situations. In His New Book, Daniel Kehlmann Says Hello to a Cruel World 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

The novelist Joanna Trollope, chair of this year's judging panel, acknowledged that the choice of winner would raise some eyebrows. Orange prize for fiction 2012 goes to Madeline Miller 2012-05-30T18:12:31Z

“It’s really hard to tell at this stage,” said Mr. Gaiman, a best-selling novelist and fiction writer who was scouted by Ms. Berger in the 1980s. Comics’ Mother of ‘the Weird Stuff’ Is Moving On 2013-05-29T21:48:48Z

During the 1930s, Orwell had modest success as an essayist, journalist and novelist. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z

Late in the book Henry tells us that the novelist David Mitchell was often his baby sitter. Books of The Times: Phantoms of the Mind, No Longer Shocking But No Less Haunting 2011-02-01T21:45:58Z

After all, the sexual antics of the modern-day campus offer such fertile ground for a social novelist — everyone from Tom Wolfe to Bret Easton Ellis has drunk that up — but Perrotta remains disappointingly demure. The most pleasant novel about pornography you’ll ever read 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

She has been, as the novelist Colum McCann puts it, "the advance scout for the Irish imagination" for over half a century. Doyenne of Irish fiction 2011-02-06T00:05:42Z

I’m a part-time copy editor at a magazine and a novelist who writes at home two weeks a month. Modern Love: Chained to the Hearth or Warmed by It? 2013-09-05T23:01:20Z

In 1951, the novelist Richard Wright explained his decision to settle in Paris after the war. “How Does It Feel To Be a White Man?”: William Gardner Smith’s Exile in Paris 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

The novelist didn’t just target racist whites but also Black identity, and Black leaders and institutions that claim to support the Black community while actually damaging and profiting off it. The Past Pushes Back in 2 Shows With Contemporary Blackness in Mind 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

Within a few months, she was living with a domineering Marxist novelist and navigating an office that seemed to be trapped in a time warp. “I was just amazed”: Joanna Rakoff on reading Salinger’s fan mail 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

A painting of the novelist and screenwriter Richard Price and his loved ones in and out of a swimming pool exudes a curiously strained, noirish feeling, like a scene from a movie about high-rolling gangsters. Art Review: ?Eric Fischl: Portraits? at Mary Boone Gallery 2012-03-01T23:52:35Z

He also liked to argue, with no plausibility at all, that he was a better poet than a novelist. Books of The Times: Roberto Bolaño’s ‘Unknown University’ Collects His Poems 2013-07-09T18:50:31Z

They still go on walks together, the novelist in awe of the naturalist's ornithological prowess, the naturalist noting that the novelist is "disgustingly fit and extremely competitive". Redmond O'Hanlon: A life in books 2011-03-28T06:59:01Z

He spent time with Kesey and his family before the novelist’s death in 2001 and had access to files, manuscripts and correspondence. Ken Kesey bio: Journey from farm kid to Merry Prankster 2013-12-24T21:27:41Z

In Triptych, novelist Jonathan Littell – author of The Kindly Ones – attempts a hymn to the matter of Bacon's art: these three short, luminous essays are exercises in paying attention to paint itself. Triptych: Three Studies After Francis Bacon by Jonathan Littell – review 2013-07-20T11:01:01Z

The Beijing Film Academy introduced her to a more cosmopolitan world; now in London, she has been acclaimed one of Britain’s best young novelists. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

His sentences have more pixel density than those of any living novelist; he transmits on a Retina display. Books of The Times: ‘Traveling Sprinkler’ Is Nicholson Baker’s New Novel 2013-09-09T21:31:25Z

On Tuesday, Julia Fine, a 33-year-old novelist in Chicago, went with what she knows: Query, as in the letters aspiring authors send while seeking a literary agent. Wordle is our new drug 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

The Italian novelist has been known only by her pseudonym since her first book, Troubling Love, came out in 1992. The Real Elena Ferrante Surfaces-In Books 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

For a novelist fascinated by the slipperiness of truth, what richer ground than the Soviet Union under Stalin, where a memory might save your life, or cost another his? Music and memory 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Coming and going—an attention paid out rhythmically—would become part of how novelists imagined their books would be read. The Chapter: A History 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

Drink also comes in handy as a device for novelists and playwrights. Why do writers drink? 2013-07-20T07:00:14Z

Growing up in the shadow of a famous novelist would probably deter most people from pursuing a career as a fiction writer. As a Straub, She Was Born to Be an Author 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Therapists don't necessarily understand their own drives, any more than novelists, also traders in insight, necessarily understand theirs. Saul Bellow's Heart: A Son's Memoir by Greg Bellow – review 2013-04-13T13:00:01Z

But his personal history prepared him for nothing in particular, except perhaps for being a novelist. Jonathan Evison gets in touch with his inner 80-year-old woman for 'Harriet Chance' 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Given all the junk that dominates the fiction bestseller lists, it’s always a pleasure to discover really good novelists there. Louise Penny’s ‘The Long Way Home’ is an artful mystery featuring Armand Gamache

Born in Brooklyn to a literary family — his father a novelist, his mother a film critic — Baumbach received wide acclaim while only in his mid-20s for his debut, "Kicking And Screaming." Filmmaker Noah Baumbach is hitting that middle-age groove 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

A gift book from the British novelist, containing otherworldly and wickedly funny stories. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

The Nobel judges passed over America’s most formidable novelist for decades even as he published one classic after another, from “Goodbye, Columbus” to “The Plot Against America.” Perspective | Philip Roth died before he could win a Nobel Prize. He didn’t need it. 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

American novelist biographer Charles Shields said that "To Kill a Mockingbird" found success in part because "it poses the fundamental question of how do I get along with people who are different from me?" 50 years on, new book from 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

The Avenues, the New England mill town neighborhood where Dubus -- a novelist best-known for "The House of Sand and Fog" -- grew up, was a domain of swaggering bullies and weak, negligent or absent authority figures. 2011's best -- so far! 2011-07-04T15:01:00Z

At 86, legendary British spy novelist Le Carré shows no signs of slowing down. Best books of 2017: The best fiction 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

What attracted you to this all as a novelist? Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z

In tightly composed essays, a noted astrophysicist and novelist argues that science need not be in conflict with spirituality. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

Midway through the series of books, and I actually did not know this before I read them, Wimsey meets a plain but brilliant young novelist named Harriet Vane, and romance ensues. Sally Rooney’s Attention Span Has Improved 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

She was a famous cook, chef, novelist and NPR journalist for many, many years. Film-maker Julie Dash: ‘#OscarsSoWhite worked!’ 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z

"Why do novelists so fear the death of the novel?" she asked. The death of the novel will presage a rebirth of writing 2012-08-22T12:52:45Z

In 1989, when Ayatollah Khomeini condemned “The Satanic Verses” and called for the novelist’s assassination, Rushdie told himself, “At least I’m going into this battle bearing the right name.” Salman Rushdie’s new novel is a swirling tale of genies and geniuses 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

The evening really belongs to Charles Edwards as the neutered novelist, Marsden. Strange Interlude – review 2013-06-05T17:44:02Z

“She is sharp, no doubt about it,” the novelist and journalist Mary Cantwell wrote in The Times Book Review in 1982, reviewing Miss King’s satirical novel “When Sisterhood Was in Flower.” Florence King, Writer Who Wielded an Acerbic Wit, Dies at 80 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

Pre-eminent among novelists of empires in decay, his range spanned the Ottoman, the Venetian and the British hegemony, and the middle ages to the present day. Barry Unsworth obituary 2012-06-08T17:14:33Z

Far from being domestically inept, she was, in addition to her talents as a journalist, novelist, muse and consort to men of genius, skilled in the kitchen. The Gimlet Eye: A Poor Little Rich Girl at Christmas 2010-12-21T20:37:10Z

Whatever the reservations, Hadley pleasantly surprises by surrounding Stella with nice characters where a less assured novelist would have opted for villains. Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley – review 2013-05-12T09:00:01Z

A commentary on wealth inequality, masculinity and death, “Infinity Pool” follows a thrill-seeking novelist, played by Skarsgard, who falls prey to the hedonism of a group of tourists at a luxury resort. ‘Infinity Pool’ and the Battle for an R Rating 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

Doctor Who star Matt Smith is also set to appear in a BBC drama about the novelist Christopher Isherwood. Wood set for Eric and Ernie drama 2010-04-27T15:47:00Z

It will also bring the premiere of Jemaine Clement's turn as a single dad and graphic novelist who finds himself in something of a romantic crisis in James Strouse's "People, Places, Things." Sundance: Slate includes Sarah Silverman as addict, Jemaine Clement as dad 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

It is brilliantly calibrated to explore Bellow’s own central theme as a novelist: the conflict between solitary genius and the constraints of community. Was Saul Bellow a Man or a Jerk? Both, a Monumental Biography Concludes 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

“Every Negro walk in a circle. Take that and make of it what you will,” the Jamaican novelist Marlon James wrote in “The Book of Night Women.” Review: In ‘Here Comes the Sun,’ a Hustle to Thrive in Jamaica 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Life as an outdoorsman inadvertently made him into a novelist. 'Legends of the Fall' Author Jim Harrison Dead at 78 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

Its dirty little secret is that David was probably a better novelist than he was an essayist. David Rakoff’s Last Deadline 2013-07-03T16:16:53Z

I am neither a better nor a worse novelist than I was three weeks ago, nor am I going to stop writing for radio. Novelists need publishers 2011-08-26T21:55:07Z

A debut novelist who spent nine years trying to get her first book published has been rewarded with a £10,000 prize. Debut novelist wins Goldsmiths prize 2013-11-14T11:42:34Z

The Armenian feminist, novelist and intellectual Zabel Yesayan was a writer with a brilliant mind and a woman far ahead of her time. The Turkish Novelist Elif Shafak Wants You to Read More Women 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Using her novelist’s eye, Mattison suggested that he “add a few sentences here and there that would just make us feel that somebody’s in the car beside you.” Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

And she is a novelist whose voice, even decades after her books were written, seems new and original, and, if you are a writer, one you wish were your own. The return of Renata Adler, most quixotic of writers 2013-03-18T14:20:35Z

In this year’s hit comedy, Sandra Bullock starred as a romance novelist caught up in an unexpected jungle adventure and Randolph as her intrepid publisher. Da’Vine Joy Randolph Doesn’t Want Anyone Finishing Her Sentences 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

“Death in Her Hands” becomes a kind of allegory for the work of a novelist. Ottessa Moshfegh’s Latest Is a Murder Mystery, but Where’s the Body? 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

Birmingham describes his lively literary history as a "biography of 'Ulysses'" that "revisits a time when novelists tested the limits of the law and when novels were dangerous enough to be burned." Get ready to celebrate Bloomsday on June 16 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

What’s striking is how little it matters, because Mary Gordon isn’t, strictly speaking, a naturalistic or realistic novelist, but rather a moralist, by which I don’t mean moralistic. What if We Pursued Vigilante Justice on Reality TV? 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

For the novelist Hugo Hamilton, it meant rejecting the Irish language itself in favor of English. Books of The Times: Colm Toibin’s ‘New Ways to Kill Your Mother’ Looks at Writers 2012-06-11T20:19:38Z

“The right was suddenly obsessed with the Roma people, with Islam. As a novelist, it made me curious,” she said. Virginie Despentes Makes France Angry, but Things Are Changing 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

In exile Keun began a torrid affair with the Austrian Jewish novelist Joseph Roth, who died in 1939 after hearing that a fellow émigré writer had hanged himself in a New York hotel. How a Grandmother’s Diary Led to a Long-Lost Literary Gem 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

He is a novelist, a composer, an entrepreneur, a veteran of both 1960s Paris and 1980s Wall Street. 2010-01-22T22:43:00Z

Novelists dream of defining characters this swiftly and beautifully, but Ms. Boo is not a novelist. Books of The Times: Katherine Boo?s First Book, ?Behind the Beautiful Forevers? 2012-01-30T23:08:37Z

As a young novelist, he used to goad himself in the mirror: “Attack! Attack!” In ‘Philip Roth,’ a Life of the Literary Master as Aggrieved Playboy 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z

Round about the same time, novelist Alice Hoffman tweeted that a Boston Globe critic was "a moron" for his bad review of her The Story Sisters. How not to handle bad reviews 2011-03-30T11:24:16Z

"Besides I'm sure He's got better things to be getting on with than taking notice of some minor British novelist." Ruffling feathers 2011-05-09T07:31:24Z

Then, oh dear yes, we come to the literary novelists. The class pyramid of British literature 2010-03-22T12:01:00Z

An actress and novelist, Holmes, 36, began her battle a year ago by launching a petition asking the Sun's editor to address the issue. What now for Britain's new-wave feminists – after page 3 and £10 notes? 2013-07-27T21:15:01Z

He is aware that the big renovated town house he shares with his fiancée, the novelist Lorraine Adams, makes him one of the downtown interlopers who have settled, at times uneasily, in Harlem. Arts & Leisure: Richard Price and CBS?s Harlem Crime Drama ?NYC-22? 2012-04-05T16:11:57Z

Harry, a novelist who just lost his job as a doorman, is the kind of hypochondriac who thinks a callous on his hand is cancer of the palm. In ‘Chinese Coffee,’ Louise Lasser Directs Austin Pendleton 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

About nine years ago, as thousands of Syrians fled the violence in their country for neighboring Lebanon, the novelist Rabih Alameddine visited some of the refugee camps to speak with them. Refugees Are Suffering. This Novelist Won’t Look Away. 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

Christopher Rice: The son of vampire novelist Anne Rice discusses what it's like to grow up with a mom who writes weird, incredibly successful vampire novels, and how it's affected his own writing life. Bumbershoot picks for Saturday, Sept. 3 2011-09-02T19:13:22Z

She acknowledged the responsibility that novelists have to real characters but suggested that "there is no one truth alone". Sharon Dogar fights back over 'sexed up' Anne Frank novel 2010-06-22T10:38:00Z

He is a former newspaper reporter and, as a novelist, something of a phenomenon. Review | How does he do it? John Sandford’s ‘Holy Ghost’ is another winner. 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Hilary got it right with her novelist’s instinct, and the record backs her up. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Nonfiction Version of Thomas Cromwell’s Life 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

Roger K. Miller, a former newspaperman, is a novelist and freelance writer and reviewer. 'Skyjack': The story of the never-ending hunt for D.B. Cooper 2011-08-10T22:24:04Z

Johnson, a German novelist following Proustian footsteps, wrote a novel in the form of daily diary entries, covering August 1967 to August 1968. New & Noteworthy 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Some egg donors have dealers who act like agents for novelists or actors. Selling my eggs to make rent 2013-02-03T18:00:00Z

The founder of the prize, novelist and journalist Kate Mosse, said she was optimistic that the award would find a new sponsor. Baileys no more: Women's prize for fiction is seeking a new sponsor 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

The novelists who take us into the woods and wilds, Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane invaluably among them, bring along slapstick and irony as critical mosquito repellent. Books: ?Deliverance?: A Dark Heart Still Beating 2010-08-24T22:27:00Z

What’s even more daunting, any would-be novelist interested in creating a fresh version of Roosevelt must compete with the version that Roosevelt left of himself in more than 40 of his own books. Review | Teddy Roosevelt and his pet cougar leap into action 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

The French novelist André Malraux organized a squadron of volunteer pilots for the anti-Fascist resistance. Review: Adam Hochschild’s ‘Spain in Our Hearts,’ About a Strangely Literary Conflict 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

It's not – at face value – a likely theme for the novelist. Where is happiness in 20th-century fiction? 2013-05-27T10:51:21Z

So, "Mandy" invents a sci-fi novelist — whole, vibrant pages from her trade paperback — and a TV commercial for a brand of demonic mac and cheese. The baptism of Nic Cage in the bloodbath of “Mandy” 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z

True to ‘True Grit’ Bringing a novelist’s distinctive tone and voice to the medium of moving pictures. The Oscars 2010-12-31T20:00:30Z

Mr. Rohmer made his prophecy in 1949, when the French embrace of American novelists and Hollywood filmmakers was at its most ardent. 2010-01-12T23:36:00Z

Increasingly, as history seems to speed up, novelists have to ask themselves hard questions about how they’ll possibly keep pace. Planned Obsolescence 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

The French poet Sylvain Royé became an infantryman and wrote to a novelist friend, “I can boast of having seen death.” Viewing World War I Through the Prism of the Personal 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

He was mystified, he said, by the absence of western novelists in the American canon. A Debut Novel. A Tiny Press. A Pulitzer Finalist. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

“The novelist in me—the reader, too—wants shape and structure, development, a theme, insights,” she writes. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

“Kafkarate” invites visitors to frolic in the footsteps of the Czech novelist Franz Kafka. In Transit Blog: Forget the London Games, Try Kafkarate in Prague 2012-05-25T19:00:40Z

Smiley is that rare three-fer: meticulous historian, intelligent humorist and seasoned literary novelist. Jane Smiley brings 'Some Luck' to readers 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

As the novelist Danzy Senna puts it in her introduction to this necessary reissue: “ ‘Oreo’ resists the unwritten conventions that still exist for novels written by black women today. Review: ‘Oreo,’ a Sandwich-Cookie of a Feminist Comic Novel 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

There are few formal portraits in this exhibition, but one that is included is of the Booker Prize-winning novelist Pat Barker in her Durham home. A sharp eye in the north east of England 2012-06-04T14:07:00Z

The novelist Nicholson Baker has written a book about being a substitute teacher. 9 Books for Back-to-School That Times Editors Think You Should Read 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

These novelists are acutely alert to the ways in which history profoundly informs the present. For Literary Novelists the Past Is Pressing 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z

At its debut in the Boston area in late March, novelist Brooks experienced the piece for the first time. Concert celebrates the Sarajevo Haggadah, ‘a symbol of survival’

Lots of novelists are peppered with questions about how much of their stories are “real,” and most of them invariably, somewhat condescendingly explain that their work is wholly the product of imagination. ‘Commonwealth’: Ann Patchett’s masterful novel of family and family secrets 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

Sixty-Six Books will see 66 novelists, playwrights, poets and authors respond to each of the 66 books in the historic bible to mark its 400th anniversary. Abbey to host Bush's bible show 2011-07-28T14:40:14Z

Suzanne Berne is a novelist whose books include “A Crime in the Neighborhood” and “The Ghost at the Table.” Review | ‘The Red Lotus,’ a new novel with a pandemic plot, is both prescient and diverting 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

Is that a riskier choice for a novelist? Can a literary thriller heal divides? Silas House’s “Southernmost” isn’t preaching to eit... 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

It’s worth noting that the script was written by the short-lived novelist Tess Slesinger and her husband, Frank Davis, a producer but a relatively inexperienced writer. Movie of the Week: “Dance, Girl, Dance” 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

One of the best films about creative writing programs is “Wonder Boys,” the adaptation of Michael Chabon’s novel about a middle-aged novelist who can’t finish his new book out of personal and professional paralysis. “Girls” goes to Iowa, humiliation ensues: Why pop culture hates MFA programs 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

So, to work on a shorter narrative, he consulted old friend and novelist, the late Saul Bellow. Philip Roth reflects on novel's decline and 'Nemesis' 2010-10-05T16:26:00Z

Rarely has a novelist's consistent use of the present tense – a growing habit in literary fiction – been more purposeful. EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012 2012-11-30T22:55:17Z

Most of Austen's admirers regard her as the most unflinchingly satirical of all great novelists. Jane Austen is not that soothing 2013-07-11T16:47:00Z

"Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For": Graphic novelist Miller and Robert Rodriguez direct a follow-up to their stylish crime saga "Sin City." Highlights of Hollywood's 2013 film lineup 2013-01-09T22:46:05Z

The strangeness of these times have given novelists all kinds of new material for thrillers. The Trump era is posing some major challenges for thriller novelists 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Based on the work of the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez, it imagines an Amazon voyage by a reclusive lovelorn diva. Daniel Cat?n, Composer of Operas in Spanish, Dies at 62 2011-04-12T02:28:20Z

The irony, for a novelist, is intentional: Mo chose his pseudonym, he has said, to remind himself to moderate his natural outspokenness. Chinese Novelist Mo Yan Receives Nobel Prize. But Is He Politically Correct? 2012-10-11T14:50:27Z

And it’s initially thrilling to see a talented novelist promise to nakedly confront them, a high-wire act not unlike the ones depicted in the narrative. On Loony Island, a Malignant Priest Strips Mental Patients of Free Will 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

A novelist and his muse meet once every year, leaving her to question whether his motives are for love or commercial success. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

Today, the prize went to the French novelist Patrick Modiano, “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.” Patrick Modiano’s Postwar 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

One of Hannah’s closest friends is her writing partner of more than 30 years — the novelist Megan Chance, whom she met early in her career at a lunch hosted by a local writers’ group. Kristin Hannah Reinvented Herself. She Thinks America Can Do the Same. 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

The bottle factory itself was no fiction, either, but a place in Camden Town where Beryl worked part-time, labelling wine bottles, even though by the early 1970s she had become a novelist. Dame Beryl Bainbridge obituary 2010-07-02T12:46:00Z

Financial journalist Maha Khan Phillips made her debut with "Beautiful from This Angle," a satire set against the backdrop of honor killings in Pakistan, and thinks many novelist wannabes may be lurking in media offices. From finance to fiction in India and Pakistan 2010-12-17T18:00:09Z

The novelist and short story writer is a winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, and this latest work is his 25th book. Spare Times for March 27-April 2 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

He said that if you're going to be a novelist, working as a subeditor is the perfect job. John Banville: a life in writing 2012-06-29T21:55:12Z

Micheaux was also a novelist and the poster art for his films such as The Exile and Murder in Harlem resembled the covers of schlocky paperback novels. The slow rise of black cinema 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

Seattle novelist Doig returns to his native Montana for this epic tale of loyalty, politics, love and newspapering set in the gritty labor wars of early 20th-centry Butte. 31 of the best titles of 2013 2013-12-04T22:03:53Z

A novelist or dramatist chooses when the final full-stop comes; a TV screenwriter is at the mercy of ratings, advertisers and actor availability. Television re-runs: only 235 episodes to go 2011-03-06T22:46:00Z

Few novelists have explored the singular relationship between Liberia’s black settlers, for whom “returning” to Africa was a form of deliverance from American white supremacy, and the indigenous people who fell under their dominion. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

At the time, The Herald Tribune was a hotbed of so-called New Journalism, in which writers like Tom Wolfe used the tools of novelists — characters, dialogue and scene-setting — to create compelling narratives. Gail Sheehy, Journalist, Author and Social Observer, Dies at 83 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

For novelist Mitchell Jackson, danger was something to be avoided, not courted. Fundraiser put on highway to the danger zone

Her new group, which includes the novelists Alexander Chee and Julia Phillips, is made up mostly of people of color, and Jacob said their conversations resulted “in my most vibrant book.” Conversations With Friends (Who Are Also Writers) 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

The cinematic retooling of the book is especially vexing since, when he was an unpublished tyro of a novelist, he imagined that what he could bring to literature was structural innovation. David Mitchell: 'I don't want to project myself as this great experimenter' 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z

But with Publication Studio, books are chosen by Matthew Stadler, a literary novelist and publisher with a national reputation. Author Matt Briggs' 'The Strong Man' can be ordered from Espresso Book Machine 2011-01-08T00:53:04Z

But, he added, “there was no way that the government was going to convince people on the right to employ novelists writing novels and to get a federal paycheck.” Orpheus to Play Kahane’s ‘Gabriel’s Guide to 48 States’ 2013-04-19T18:57:59Z

These novelists show the power of suppressed, chaotic inner lives of "intense, vibrating need" – left off the invitation list but clamouring to be accounted for with often disastrous, but deliciously entertaining, consequences. Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead – review 2013-07-21T13:00:00Z

Longtime admirers of this author were excited to see her appear in a thrilling cameo role in a recent New Yorker article about the publisher and novelist Dan Mallory. In ‘The Next to Die,’ a Serial Killer Targets Pairs of Best Friends 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

The collection, titled, “Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda,” will be translated by the poet and novelist Forrest Gander, and will include full color reproductions of the handwritten poems. Rediscovered Pablo Neruda Poems to Be Published 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

But is he a great novelist, or even a good one? Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson – review 2012-08-30T07:00:42Z

His books are mostly just as good, especially his 2004 biography of the comic novelist P. G. Wodehouse. Books of The Times: In ?Globish,? Robert McCrum Traces the Spread of English 2010-05-25T21:08:00Z

The novelist and essayist Lively hates the term “hobby,” preferring “consuming interest” to describe her passion for gardening. New in Paperback: ‘Life in the Garden,’ ‘The Mere Wife’ 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

He has to observe things on the novelist's behalf, "so I'm quite invested in him". The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 2011-08-12T21:55:14Z

Ackerman, a Marine veteran turned novelist, falls in with others drawn to Syria’s war and its borderless churn: Syrian fighters and democracy activists, foreign humanitarian workers and journalists and a striking number of American veterans. A Reckoning With the Wars He Has Known 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Blatty went on to sell vacuum cleaners, drive a beer truck and serve in the Air Force before becoming a comic novelist and a screenwriter in Hollywood. William Peter Blatty, author of ‘The Exorcist,’ dies at 89 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

But, many years later, the countess told an interviewer, gleefully, that after that day she never saw the novelist again. Marcel Proust, Caught on Film 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

That the novelist had stabbed and nearly killed his own wife a few years earlier gave the project a frisson of sick fever. Eleanor Parker: More Than Just the Sound of Music Baroness 2013-12-11T03:11:54Z

The best novel by far by one of the finest novelists now at work, both a tour de force and an utterly gripping mystery, psychological and otherwise. Jonathan Yardley’s favorite books

As a teacher, book columnist and novelist, I’m something of a professional reader. The Trouble With Autism in Novels 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

This lead to legal action against novelists who were publishing new Holmes stories as well as the television and film adaptations that were sold in America, like BBC’s Sherlock and Guy Richie’s movies. The Strange Case of 'Mr. Holmes' Vs. U.S. Copyright Law 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

Lovecraft’s death, the purveyor of baroque dread and menace remains very much alive in the imaginations of a host of ­American novelists. Paul La Farge’s ‘The Night Ocean’ will suck you into the vortex of H.P. Lovecraft 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

To my ear the term "comic novelist" is as redundant and off-putting as the term "literary novelist". Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z

The British novelist Beryl Bainbridge had a lifelong fascination with tragedy — what she called “an interest in death” and what one reviewer cattily summarized as “the Beryl Bainbridge school of anguished women’s fiction.” Beryl Bainbridge: The writer who used tragedy as an entry point into farce 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

Had he lived longer, the irrepressible New Journalist and omnivorous novelist might have written the ultimate burlesque about the presidency of Donald Trump. Review | Finally, a novel that captures the inanity of the Trump era. It isn’t pretty. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

The exhibition, Beautiful Books: Dickens and the Business of Christmas, runs at the novelist’s former London home, now a museum, until 19 April 2020. World's first printed Christmas card goes on display at Dickens museum 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

He knows just how to attract and manipulate the people who can further his career: older, gay novelists thirsty for the attention of a gorgeous disciple. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Maria Edgeworth, then one of Britain’s most famous novelists, was far better known than Austen. Perspective | Jane Austen: A role model for the #MeToo generation 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

The zestful, bitter voice of the book’s protagonist, Jason T. Fitger, a professor of creative writing at Payne University and frustrated novelist, begs to be read aloud. Dear Match Book: Funny Pages 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

Adele Mailer, an artist and actress who made headlines in 1960 when her husband, the novelist Norman Mailer, stabbed and seriously wounded her at a drunken party in their apartment, died on Sunday in Manhattan. Adele Mailer, Artist Who Married Norman Mailer, Dies at 90 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

The novelist concluded one riotous night out in the Bellevue morgue, inspecting corpses. Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell – review 2013-06-02T07:01:17Z

And Updike, in his equally voluminous collections of reviews, makes it clear that critics, unlike novelists, are somehow “on duty”: They have to wear their Sunday best, and can never come as they are. ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ Saul Bellow’s Nonfiction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

In a moving speech, the novelist and National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward recalled the horrors of slavery with detailed descriptions of Africans being stolen from their homes. ‘She Saved Us’: Mourners Pay Tribute to Toni Morrison 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

If Bourdain puzzles over whether Chang’s cuisine can be “authentic,” novelist Alexander Chee sees things from the other side of the equation. The kimchi revolution: How Korean-American chefs are changing food culture 2014-04-07T23:00:00Z

Rather, they come when novelists feel confident enough to say their thing in as few words as possible. Short is sweet when it comes to fiction 2010-03-17T16:32:00Z

But while the words are Sontag’s, they were confided to her journal long before she became a celebrated critic and novelist. Theater Review: ‘Sontag: Reborn,’ at New York Theater Workshop 2013-06-07T02:00:01Z

In “Breath, Eyes, Memory,” the Haitian American novelist Edwidge Danticat speaks of people who are “given the sky to carry because they are strong.” Finding Mexico City, and Luis Barragán, Again 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

In the interview, she talked about how she shifted course with the book, whether novelists should incorporate the coronavirus into their fiction and why it’s perhaps time for science fiction writers to be kinder. Naomi Alderman Was Writing a Pandemic Novel Before the Pandemic Hit 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

Smith’s gifts as a novelist animate her essays. In ‘Intimations,’ Zadie Smith Applies Her Even Temper to Tumultuous Times 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

As a child, Mr. Flynn, a novelist who now serves as a city councilor in Dublin, spent time in two of the most notorious of those schools. ArtsBeat Blog: Play About Abuse in Ireland Will Finally Arrive in New York 2011-11-16T19:12:21Z

What interests her extremely is the way in which novelists deal with particular technical challenges. From the margins 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z

At the time the most expensive film ever made, William Wyler’s 1959 film, ran 212 minutes from a screenplay whipped into shape by novelist Gore Vidal. Don't judge Ben-Hur by the 2016 version 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

Who should join novelist Toni Morrison on the list of Great American Novelists? The Great American Novel tournament 2012-07-09T14:07:00Z

So thank heavens for literary prizes that cast their net wide enough to look at the independents – they have the power to make invisible novelists visible. Novelists need publishers 2011-08-26T21:55:07Z

Croft published an open letter with the novelist Mark Haddon, calling on publishers to credit translators on covers. Shining a Spotlight on the Art of Translation 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

This is Toibin’s second novel to dramatize the life of a major novelist. Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ Intimately Recaptures a Literary Giant 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

Twenty years ago, the novelist Kathryn Harrison published “The Kiss,” and a debate began about whether the American memoir had finally gone too far. A Dive Into the Abyss in the Anonymous ‘Incest Diary’ 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

A celebrated novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet, he is best known for the novel “Tree of Smoke” and the short story collection “Jesus’ Son.” ‘Des Moines’ Review: Drowning in the Drink 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

In Poland, where simmering nationalist sentiment seems to be on the rise, Tokarczuk is especially popular among readers with a progressive bent; as Franklin writes, the novelist “relishes her role as a challenger of orthodoxies.” The 2019 National Book Awards Longlist: Translated Literature 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

As the imprisoned writer asks in this book: "If you don't trust a novelist, who are you going to trust?" The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón – review 2012-06-28T07:00:01Z

Photograph: Laurie Harris It's quite easy for a mainstream novelist to vanish. Novelists need publishers 2011-08-26T21:55:07Z

How families remember and judge themselves becomes one of the novel’s richest themes, and Patchett ingeniously ties that to how novelists fictionalize other people’s lives. ‘Commonwealth’: Ann Patchett’s masterful novel of family and family secrets 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

Featured speakers will include historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, "Bridget Jones" novelist Helen Fielding and a star among teens, "Divergent" author Veronica Roth. Book industry gathers for annual convention 2013-05-28T12:27:09Z

"The Revisionist," a play by actor-writer Jesse Eisenberg about a pompous, inconsiderate young American novelist who pays a visit to a Polish relative he barely knows, tests an audience's tolerance for implausibility from the start. 'The Revisionist' has an uninspired role in need of a rewrite 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

Professor X, a thwarted novelist who long ago took a day job working for the government, was driven into adjunct work because he and his wife bought the wrong house at the wrong time. Books of The Times: An Academic Hit Man Brings More Bad News 2011-04-05T21:12:11Z

Much of the book is dedicated to Ginsburg’s influences — from Eleanor Roosevelt to the soap opera character Helen Trent and the novelist Vladimir Nabokov, who was Ginsburg’s professor at Cornell. Charlotte Brontë and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Before the World Knew Them 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

The best-selling Scottish crime novelist ventures into a history of forensic science, weaving in real-world murders and the scientists who investigate them, both at home and in far-flung and hostile places. 30 books for spring reading 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning German novelist, died on Monday at 87. Looking Back at Günter Grass's Life and Work 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

The painting was commissioned for the first full-length biography... which was crucial in transforming her from a novelist into a national figure. 'Definitive' Austen work for sale 2013-10-31T12:42:16Z

Edmund White, the American novelist who lived in Paris for 15 years and was a frequent visitor to the Louvre, said he hoped the new policy would keep irksome icon-worshippers away. Looking for Elbow Room, Louvre Limits Daily Visitors to 30,000 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

Zink writes as if the political madness of the last four decades had been laid on for her benefit as a novelist. With ‘Doxology,’ Nell Zink Delivers Her Most Ambitious and Expansive Novel Yet 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

Cuba and a private U.S. foundation are working together to preserve more of the novelist's papers and belongings that have been kept at his home near Havana since he died in 1961. Items from Hemingway's Cuba home go to JFK Library 2013-05-06T16:45:09Z

His memoir, “The Color of Water,” is a contemporary classic, and his National Book Award-winning novel, “The Good Lord Bird,” cemented his place as a great American novelist. A Set of Brilliant Miniatures by the Author of ‘The Good Lord Bird’ 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

But Ms. Haigh, a subtle, serious novelist who happens to have a flair for capturing troubled family dynamics, never allows “Faith” to become predictable. Critic?s Notebook: Books to Bury Yourself In 2011-05-26T22:07:19Z

Which writers — novelists, playwrights, critics, biographers, historians, journalists, poets — working today do you admire most? The Book That Taught Tammy Duckworth How to Mummify Human Remains 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Yet if you were to name the great Catholic novelists of 20th-century Britain, would Tolkien be on the list with G.K. ‘The Fellowship’ explores the spiritual roots of Tolkien and the Inklings 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Torquemada by Howard Fast With such a compelling subject and dramatic characters, it's not surprising that a great many novelists have covered the period of history encompassed by the Spanish inquisition. Theresa Breslin's top 10 books about the Spanish inquisition 2010-03-24T12:48:00Z

Then, I felt the need to bring in the novelist Marie Ndiaye, who won the Prix Goncourt for "Three Strong Women." "Saint Omer" examines the darkest maternity taboos and the "language of the accused" 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

None of the articles — on, for example, Oscar Wilde, the poet Tasso and the neglected comic novelist P.H. Review | One critic’s summer reading list: From a scandalous memoir to obscure literary journalism 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

Most of the literary novelists praised for the all-around swellness of their sentences do not, in fact, write as well as he does. Peter Straub reviews ‘The Boy Who Drew Monsters,’ by Keith Donohue

This spurred thoughts about other movies invented by novelists. ArtsBeat: Movies That Flicker Only on the Page 2012-06-15T19:19:28Z

One of our great voices of the Midwest was the early-20th-century novelist Theodore Dreiser. The Ideal Reading Experience, The American Dollar and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

The earnest, expansive Mr. Knausgaard, he suggested, “offers the novelist a path: that close attention to life as it actually is lived.” Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle’ Is a Movement 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

Nesbo’s “Macbeth” is the latest entry in a project in which top-flight novelists are asked to reinterpret Shakespeare. Review | Jo Nesbo puts a Nordic chill on ‘Macbeth’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

Early in Elif Batuman’s funny and melancholy first book, “The Possessed,” she describes her disillusionment, as a would-be novelist, with “the transcendentalist New England culture of ‘creative writing.’ ” 2010-02-16T22:32:00Z

Graphic novelist honored: Longtime Seattle resident Jim Woodring is a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize in the graphic novel category for his book "Congress of the Animals." 5 literary events: Anne Lamott, Edible Book Festival, more 2012-03-16T19:38:09Z

Moore is perhaps better known as a novelist and short story writer than a critic, but readers of her fiction will recognize her engaging and approachable voice. New in Paperback: ‘See What Can Be Done,’ ‘The Gunners’ 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

But to the extent that Mr. Buarque is known at all in the English-speaking world his primary identity is that of a novelist with a cult following among more celebrated writers. Books Of the Times: ‘Spilt Milk’ by Chico Buarque 2012-12-23T22:01:52Z

Beryl was a serious and dedicated novelist and her own severest critic. 'The rarest of friends' 2010-07-02T16:00:00Z

And like Jenkins, Powell later worked for a down-at-heel publisher before becoming a book reviewer and struggling to be noticed as a novelist. The One-Hit Author Whose One Hit Had 12 Volumes 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

“Most historians taken seriously are always straight,” says the novelist and playwright, whose new book is “The American People: Volume 2.” Larry Kramer Wishes More People Wrote About Gay History 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Were these two affections not used by the novelist to externalise "the two parts of him, perhaps, that were always in conflict". Book Club: Restoration by Rose Tremain 2012-10-05T21:55:08Z

Vásquez is one of the most interesting Latin American novelists writing today. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Only the novelist, he argues, has the capacity for deep empathy for a variety of characters in a mix of contexts, plus a command of the broader story that detectives arrive at only imperfectly. Bad news sells in the 'The Last Kid Left' 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

The Times’s obituary described him as a “towering novelist who explored lust, Jewish life and America.” A Philip Roth Reader 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

Critical and popular acclaim for Australian novelist Tsiolkas's The Slap also seems to be gaining force. Which books are on your summer holiday reading list? 2010-07-22T15:28:00Z

Prolific novelist Linwood Barclay delivers a clever twist on an old trope: heirs knocking off other heirs to inflate their own inheritance. Review | Five great new mysteries and thrillers to look forward to this spring 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

He's the most famous novelist in the country. The Love and Death of Caterina by Andrew Nicoll ? review 2011-08-19T21:55:07Z

Are literary-minded novelists increasingly taking into account what their readers want or expect? Arts & Leisure Preview: Reading and the Web: Texts Without Context 2010-03-17T23:19:00Z

Excellent westerns have been composed by people who could barely ride a horse, and the best writers of sex scenes are often novelists you wouldn’t wish to see naked. Books of The Times: ?Operation Mincemeat? by Ben Macintyre 2010-05-11T21:44:00Z

The tastes for puzzles, opera, poetry and flashy cars that the novelist Colin Dexter originally gave Morse have become an orthodoxy after nearly 40 years of books and television shows, and they’re reverently invoked here. Television Review: In PBS’s ‘Endeavour,’ the Detective Is a Poetry Lover 2013-07-05T19:20:32Z

Like many novelists, in his spare time the author of The Adventures of Augie March and Henderson the Rain King was also a voracious letter writer. Epistles at dawn: the dying art of letter writing 2010-06-23T13:42:00Z

The famed Polish composer and his French lover, a novelist known by her male pen name, spent the winter of 1838 at this former Carthusian monastery in Valldemossa. In Spain, finding peace — and paella — on Mallorca 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Poets and novelists have traditionally moonlighted as art critics. Henry James, a Poohbah Who Painted With Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Fairly or not, it’s easiest to describe Patrick deWitt, so far, as a novelist who riffs on things. Review: Novels by Alexandra Kleeman, Edward St. Aubyn and More 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

The novelist, in turn, burnished the dictator’s image, describing Castro in 1990 as a “man of austere habits and insatiable dreams, with an old-fashioned formal education, careful words and fine manners.” Love in the time of surveillance: FBI agents tracked Gabriel García Márquez 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

I am sometimes described as a comic novelist, but I describe myself simply as a novelist. David Nobbs 2010-09-18T23:04:00Z

I don’t like it when novelists try to teach or preach. The Turkish Novelist Elif Shafak Wants You to Read More Women 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

The photographs in Uncommon Places and American Surfaces evoked a sad, ever-spreading hinterland that novelist Raymond Carver also mapped out in his minimalist prose. Writing and photography ? is a picture really worth a thousand words? 2010-08-04T05:00:00Z

“A Sentimental Novel,” the final published work of the avant-garde novelist and theorist Alain Robbe-Grillet, appeared in France four months before his death, in 2008, and in English translation last spring. Translating a Novel of Sadism 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

As the author of a work of nonfiction, Mr. Wilson was neither a dramatist like Mr. Osborne nor a novelist like Mr. Amis. Colin Wilson, Author of ‘The Outsider,’ Dies at 82 2013-12-12T17:03:34Z

While the novelist spends time in Florida each year, he does still live in Maine. Stephen King demands apology from Maine governor 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

In pieces for The New York Review of Books and The Guardian, she's championed "difficult" writers such as Kafka, David Foster Wallace, and the experimental novelist Tom McCarthy. 2009-12-10T17:55:00Z

The novelist was one of the first three competitors on Monday’s kickoff of “Power Players Week,” an assemblage of journalists and intellectuals. Jonathan Franzen's Appearance on Jeopardy! Was Perfect TV 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Less grounded novelists would let their imagination run away with them but Lodge remains scrupulous and scholarly. A Man of Parts by David Lodge ? review 2011-04-10T02:30:01Z

Sir Andrew Motion is an English poet and novelist who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009. Top 10 tips for writing poetry 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

Martin Amis and other novelists are searching for a medium to express the superficial electronic lives we all lead. Expert view: 'We are becoming superficial' 2010-07-28T21:59:00Z

The novelist lays out his arthritic hand, like a passive invalid, on the couch. Alice Neel: Painted Truths 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

The actuality is continually outdoing our talents, and the culture tosses up figures almost daily that are the envy of any novelist.” Nonfiction Wins a Nobel 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

As flattering as it is for our nation’s novelists to be invited into the U.K.’s literary arena, Americans don’t need any encouragement to trumpet their own books. Dear Britain, please take your Booker Prize back home. 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

The aspiring novelist, who died of a heart attack a few months later at the age of 50, was of course Stieg Larsson. ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ review: Lisbeth Salander hacks on 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

The “Harry Potter” author was exposed by a newspaper on July 14 as the author of “The Cuckoo’s Calling,” a thriller ostensibly written by former soldier and first-time novelist Robert Galbraith. Rowling Accepts Donation for Identity Revelation 2013-07-31T14:03:40Z

The Scottish novelist Ali Smith’s slim new book, “Artful,” is equal parts ghost story and academic treatise: it reads like a clumsy but seductive blend of “Truly Madly Deeply” and Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lectures on Literature.” Books of The Times: ‘Artful,’ by Ali Smith, a Novel With a Ghost 2013-01-22T20:49:36Z

Rounding out the top five is horror novelist Stephen King, whose book series “The Dark Tower” was recently adapted into a movie. J.K. Rowling is the world's highest-paid author, according to Forbes 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

His write-what-you-know dictum has no place in imaginative literature; it’s advice for a journalist, not for a novelist or a playwright. By the Book : John Irving: By the Book 2012-06-07T15:45:22Z

But it’s an odd choice for Stephen Wright, an extravagantly talented novelist who excels at depicting the delirium that hits once you’ve scrambled so far off the limb you’re suspended in midair. Revisiting Stephen Wright and Historical Fiction 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Denmark's Ambassador in the UK, Anne Hedensted Steffensen, and the novelist, David Hewson, who was commissioned to adapt The Killing into a novel, discussed why the programme is so successful in the UK. AUDIO: Why The Killing is 'so unique' 2012-12-14T09:29:19Z

A novelist can avoid literary functions, but not his fellow feeling for other novelists. Bookends: Are Novelists Too Wary of Criticizing Other Novelists? 2013-09-03T17:19:22Z

The English novelist Derek Marlowe's debut was a bestseller and he never repeated its success, though he would write even better novels. Nicholas Royle's top 10 first novels 2013-02-27T09:00:06Z

The great French novelist spent years adventuring around the world, before returning and, in just 53 days, dictating The Charterhouse Of Parma. Jonathan Franzen: 'I must be near the end of my career ? people are starting to approve' 2010-09-24T23:03:00Z

“Characters, characters, characters,” says the novelist, whose new Pike Logan thriller is “American Traitor.” Brad Taylor Has a Theory About What Makes for Good Thrillers 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

But it’s clear why some people have found her book jarring: on page one, in bold, is a quote from the novelist Michel Houellebecq: “The child is a sort of vicious, innately cruel dwarf.” ‘It's the breaking of a taboo’: the parents who regret having children 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

Broad satirical vistas are not so hard for a novelist to sketch. Review: ‘The Sellout,’ Paul Beatty’s Biting Satire on Race in America 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The Spanish flu tends to be overshadowed by World War I in our cultural memory, but Spinney, a novelist and science writer, draws on medical mysteries and haunting vignettes to give the pandemic its due. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

While the insurgency ended overnight, it lasted long enough for novelist Victor Hugo to be caught in its crosshairs, pinned to a wall as bullets flew. They Dreamed a Dream: Les Misérables Is a Whole New Kind of Movie Musical 2012-12-04T17:00:00Z

If you had to name the best young British novelists of today, who would be on your list? David Mitchell: By the Book 2012-10-20T09:00:06Z

In an effort to answer these questions I spoke with the award-winning novelist Jonathan Lethem. Novelist Jonathan Lethem: "There is no allegory crude enough" to capture Trump's America 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

Part one includes, among other things, the memory of his friend, the novelist Francis Wyndham, being taken to the River Cafe in Freud's glamorous car. Lucian Freud: the best of the web 2011-07-22T15:34:36Z

The lab operative James is played by novelist Alan Bissett, who has a natural ear for Burke's comic rhythms even if he sometimes lacks physical authority. Battery Farm | Theatre review 2010-03-17T23:20:00Z

Of all contemporary novelists, he is the one who has made writing seem a necessary and continuous act, inextricable from the continuities and struggles of being alive. My hero: Philip Roth by James Wood 2013-03-22T16:00:06Z

The novel that came out of all this was The Sportswriter, in which a failed novelist, Frank Bascombe, comes to terms with the death of his son and the end of his marriage. Literary giants at play 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

“If book publishers are supposed to be the gatekeepers,” said Kurt Andersen, the novelist and host of “Studio 360,” a public radio program, “tell me exactly what they’re closing the gate to.” Pondering Good Faith in Publishing 2010-03-08T22:38:00Z

So he hires this hunky novelist, Thomas Yates, as his ghost writer and tells him he wants a story that will sell his jobs plan. 'House of Cards' Season 3 Episode 5 Recap: Replacing a Dud With an Atom Bomb 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

"It's not a pirate show," said Cross, a novelist and screenwriter best known for his work on the BBC's crime thriller "Luther." Blackbeard epic 'Crossbones' has NBC crossing its fingers 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

However, not being young is currently disastrous for novelists, especially women novelists – much as it is for actors. Experience enriches fiction, but it doesn't reward authors 2011-02-03T12:21:38Z

Ernest J. King, under whom Heinlein had once served, the novelist replied that he considered King a nearly perfect military officer and then produced 59 typed pages of anecdote and reminiscence. ‘Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with his Century,’ by William H. Patterson, Jr.

Conspiracy theories, once the novelist’s stock in trade, emanate from the Internet like methane from a marsh. The Trump era is posing some major challenges for thriller novelists 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

She tells their story with a novelist’s eye for detail and the honesty of a trusted friend. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

“The documentary process is really a great way for me to work as a photographer rather than a novelist.” ‘X’s and O’s (A Football Love Story)’ Examines a Sport’s Damage 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

He is like a novelist, O'Neill, isn't he? Anne-Marie Duff: 'I wondered if I should lie about my background' 2013-05-19T05:00:03Z

The assumption is that the novelist is able to do one or the other. Ahdaf Soueif: In times of crisis, fiction has to take a back seat 2012-08-17T15:00:01Z

They form a kind of counter-tradition of office literature, dealing with the same bureaucracies and white-collar doldrums that have inspired male novelists but reflecting the particular challenges and preoccupations of women in the workforce. The Office Politics of Workplace Fiction by Women 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Observations like this one are at the heart of “Busted in New York,” a new essay collection by the novelist and essayist Darryl Pinckney. Darryl Pinckney on Race, Class and Being ‘Busted in New York’ 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Not only does he choose to immerse himself in exotic locales, he also insists on anchoring himself, Mischa Berlinski, journalist and novelist, as the narrator, intermediary and witness. ‘Peacekeeping’ review: Haiti endures despite outsiders’ good (and bad) intentions 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

It takes its title from the celebrated open letter written by novelist Emile Zola and published in 1898, accusing the government of ineptitude and antisemitism after the jailing of artillery officer Alfred Dreyfus for espionage. Social media outrage over Roman Polanski film J'Accuse 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

For a dystopian novelist, Jacobson is coy about what disrupted modern civilization, and he has little interest in describing the intricacies of the current state. Book review: ‘J,’ by Howard Jacobson, is a chilling tale of our anti-Semitic future

Among other things, The Possessed is a record of her decision to become a reading kind of writer rather than a novelist herself. The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman ? review 2011-04-10T01:00:02Z

The publication in four languages simultaneously was “very aggressive — more appropriate to the capture of a criminal,” the novelist Alexander Chee wrote in an email. Who Is Elena Ferrante? Supporters Say NOYB 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

In Tokyo she sweeps the grave of the Japanese novelist Osamu Dezai; in Tangier she attends a conference of “the gone Beats’ orphaned children.” The Theology of Patti Smith 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Guo then wrote the “Tiny Times” series, which includes a third book; became an editor at Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House; and founded a magazine to publish other young novelists. In ‘Tiny Times’ Movies, Material Girls Have a Nation Tsking 2013-09-03T21:42:17Z

Holland is a debut novelist, but she's been publishing fiction for more than 20 years. Noy Holland's novel 'Bird' slips between past and present, lover and life 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z

Exacting narratives composed by two acclaimed novelists capture layers of virtuosity and unexpected comedy in their intricate arrangements. Finding Harmony, Literally, in Fiction About Music 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

It's equally tough if you are a novelist, and put in the powerful but invidious position of controlling what befalls your characters. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson – review 2013-03-06T08:01:01Z

Holsinger is not the only contemporary novelist building a case against élite education. How a Novel Can Unmake the Myth of Meritocracy 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

The New Academy Prize is also distinctive for including popular genre authors: for instance, fantasy novelists such as J.K. Maryse Condé Wins an Alternative to the Literature Nobel in a Scandal-Plagued Year 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

The novelist who invents characters, on the other hand, depends entirely on whether those inventions are convincing. An Answer to the Novel’s Detractors 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

He wanted to be a novelist and thought a spell at the front would give him material for a book, but he got more than he bargained for. Korean war: a British soldier's memories of a forgotten conflict 2013-07-24T13:56:37Z

The novelist's first book in seven years, called "Dead or Alive," will be published in the United States and Britain on December 7. Tom Clancy heroes team up to fight terror 2010-04-07T17:33:00Z

Rooney’s third book follows two friends — a young, successful novelist and an editorial assistant in Dublin — as they navigate romantic relationships and contemplate class and climate change over email. Nine People Under One Roof for Two Weeks? Have Fun! 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

He plays Sidney J. Munsinger, a longtime advertising copywriter and sometime novelist who, late in life, has decided he wants to break into TV. Review: ‘Crisis in Six Scenes,’ a Mere Ghost of Woody Allen Past 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

The mystery novelist P. D. James became known as the “Queen of Crime” over her writing career. Remembering P. D. James: Times Reviews 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

The tone is Hemingway by way of the novelist Jim Harrison: Cormac McCarthy Loves a Good Diner 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

I loved being a reporter, it was fun, but I always wanted to be a novelist. Laura Lippman on turning true crime into fiction: "Am I not appropriating somebody's story?" 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

For the most part, the Israeli novelist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen writes sensitively of inner turmoil and loneliness, but she intermittently sabotages her own work with a made-for-Netflix plot ricochet or line of cheesy dialogue. What Happens When Girl Power Goes Wrong? 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

A satire of writerly ambition wrapped in a psychological thriller: A young novelist claws his way to fame by seducing other writers and stealing their plots. 50 notable works of fiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

He studied English as an undergraduate at Williams College, and had planned a thesis on the 18th-century novelist Laurence Sterne, but preferred the history of that time to the fiction. Eminent scholar of early U.S., Bernard Bailyn, dies at 97 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

Vonnegut ranks among the most moral of male novelists writing in English. Jon Ronson’s ‘So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed’ 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

“True multiculturalism,” the novelist Danzy Senna’s father once told her, “flourishes in only four places: drug dens, casinos, the military — and last but not least, houses of God.” ‘New People’ Riffs on Race and Love, With a Twist 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

The novelist and Proust scholar, whose new book is “Find Me,” calls “Mrs. Dalloway” an “overrated novel that I don’t find particularly gripping or interesting. I’m not even sure it’s well written.” André Aciman Would Like to Demote Virginia Woolf From the Canon 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

The Northern Irish novelist Maggie O’Farrell is consumed with this shadow life in her transfixing “I Am I Am I Am,” a memoir that trains its fierce intelligence on her 17 near-death experiences. A Memoir of Near-Death Experiences 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Patterson, one of America’s most prolific novelists, relies on a stable of lesser-known writers to produce his thrillers at a steady clip. Bill Clinton and James Patterson Are Writing a Second Book Together 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

From outsider to doyenne: if it now seems so obvious that Mantel is one of Britain's leading novelists, it is a fact that is only recently evident. EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012 2012-11-30T22:55:17Z

The Italian thinker, who died in 2016, was a professor, a novelist — who wrote, most notably and at one time inescapably, “The Name of the Rose” — a semiotician, a columnist and a connoisseur of arcana. ‘Umberto Eco’ Review: Remembering a Literary Explorer 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

An award-winning playwright, novelist and actor best known for creating edgy one-man shows and caustic characters like "Talk Radio" shock jock Barry Champlain, Bogosian unearths one of the genocide's obscure yet dramatic chapters. Eric Bogosian's 'Operation Nemesis' chases Turkish perpetrators 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

“When it comes to inheritance, maturity dissolves into a puddle of childish resentments,” wrote the novelist Daisy Goodwin last year, about the emotional legacy of her mother’s will. Last orders: what do our wills say about us? 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Dorn, the doctor, goes to investigate the noise of a shot, discovers the body and returns to murmur the news to Trigorin, a famous novelist who is a house guest. How far can you push Chekhov? 2012-11-19T15:11:45Z

This was a response to the novelist Lauren Sandler's observation in the Atlantic magazine that the secret to success as a writer was "just have one kid". Why I performed 100 consecutive nights of standup comedy 2013-06-21T14:00:03Z

Or consider the case of the novelist Dennis Cooper, who lost an entire novel, hosted on a Google blog, because of a single, anonymous complaint. Vine and the New Gatekeepers of Self-Expression 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

There are many adjectives you can use to describe the fiction of the French novelist Patrick Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Four people are credited with the book -- Lloyd Webber himself, theatrical writer Glenn Slater, novelist Frederick Forsyth and comedian Ben Elton. Phantom sequel a "shadow of the original" 2010-03-10T11:48:00Z

A posthumous collection from the novelist and screenwriter best known for her precise accounts of individuals caught between different societies, seeking to find an elusive sense of home. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Many early modern novelists, especially Americans, concentrated on the irredeemable consequences of war — the harm it did to its warriors, to society, to human sensibility. Toni Morrison: ‘Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Barker may also be the most intensely visual novelist working in the field today, and it’s no surprise that his parallel livelihoods encompass filmmaking and the visual arts. ‘The Scarlet Gospels,’ by Clive Barker 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

I tell him the story about Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope who, when he was commuting to his day job, would write novels. Bryn Terfel: 'I'd like to sing Citizen Kane' 2012-06-26T17:40:14Z

A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. Colm Tóibín 2013-02-19T18:17:50Z

Now, UTA is expanding its ambitions even further by buying the literary agency Fletcher & Company, dramatically increasing its roster of contemporary novelists and nonfiction writers. United Talent Agency Grows Its Literary Business 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

Only in the 20th century, when the fall of the Ottomans signalled a decisive tilt west, did the country begin to turn out great novelists. 10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

Chandler was a novelist and then a screenwriter, the man who created the private detective Philip Marlowe. Raymond Chandler to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Moehringer, a novelist and journalist who won a Pulitzer while at the Los Angeles Times. The anticipation around Prince Harry's "Spare," from its ghostwriter to the memoir genre 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

“Fitzgerald was right, and almost for that remark alone he must surely have been received in Balzac’s bosom in the heaven of novelists.” The Rich in Fiction 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z

With a nod towards Encounter magazine's CIA funding, in McEwan's tale, money is available to fund the sort of writers, including novelists, who will provide a more traditional account of British society. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan – review 2013-06-02T09:00:01Z

Quindlen, the best-selling novelist and former New York Times columnist, speaks from a position of privilege, as she admits. Anna Quindlen’s No. 1 Rule for Grandparents: Butt Out 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

There's nothing that happened to Carrie that happened to me, but obviously, as a novelist, I do draw from my own experiences. Candace Bushnell: Author of Sex and the City and The Carrie Diaries 2010-05-07T09:00:00Z

I thought the desire of a novelist was to have his work read by many and not turned into limited tv series with the hope of sequels. How ‘The Alienist’ Finally Found a Screen 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

Interwoven is Payne's story, that of the aspiring poet who became a novelist, all the while prone to his own toxic mix of alcohol and rage. David Payne's 'Barefoot to Avalon' avoids easy answers in a tale of two brothers 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

Some reviewers of his memoir also detected a degree of self-importance: "No one", the novelist Christopher Hope wrote, "could say that Brink takes his work, or himself, too lightly." A life in writing: Andr? Brink 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

At their best, as in this song, the Flaming Lips are like a great Russian novelist interrogating the ultimate question: why live? Bubble trouble 2010-06-26T09:19:00Z

His first book was a study of the iconoclastic Victorian-era novelist Samuel Butler, the author of “Erewhon” and “The Way of All Flesh.” P. N. Furbank, Biographer of E. M. Forster, Dies at 94 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Clement plays Will, a graphic novelist and teacher grappling with the abrupt end of his relationship and his new status as a single father juggling shared custody of twin daughters. Flight of the Conchords the musical is coming, says Jemaine Clements 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

She’s an extraordinary polymath — gifted violinist, writer and novelist; fluent speaker of a half-dozen languages; math genius. I thought I could reason with Antonin Scalia: A more naive young fool never drew breath 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z

As a novelist, my imagination springs from the concrete details, and the writing is only as vivid as my mastery of the time and the place. Janet Fitch on writing her new novel, 'The Revolution of Marina M.' 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Brian Morton, a gifted, compassionate novelist, has, over the course of five elegant novels, explored the moral complexity inherent in storytelling. A Son Looks Back on Life With an Irascible and Beloved Mother 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

The novelist Harry Crews heralded him as “one of the finest comic voices to appear anywhere in years.” Charles Simmons, Novelist and Critic, Dies at 92 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

I felt an expanded sense of my cultural lineage in learning that there were many different kinds of storytellers, novelists, essayists, playwrights, and poets. The Ancestral Blessings of Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

"The church needs money for its various activities, but these monstrous conditions are not possible," said the writer, a close friend of the late novelist Italo Calvino. Vatican in row over 'drunken tourist herds' destroying majesty of the Sistine Chapel 2012-09-29T10:48:32Z

A sense of literary celebrity also attached to him from the beginning by virtue of his marriage to the novelist Zadie Smith. Nick Laird: a life in writing 2013-01-04T22:55:01Z

Dickens, then, is a novelist who benefits, creatively, from the restrictions placed on his art by the prevailing publishing conditions. Deadlines can give life to creative writing 2011-02-28T10:43:22Z

He gossiped about famous dead novelists like they were old acquaintances. ‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner’s Foray Into Fiction 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

This album, sung in French, is an acknowledgement of that audience – though it might dislodge some of those who've discovered Kent through her recent work with lyricists such as the novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. Stacey Kent: Raconte-Moi 2010-06-17T21:30:00Z

On set on Dec. 15, Mr. Gibson tried to coax Frances Ruiz, a young-adult novelist, to share why, at 28, she still had never been kissed. Ted Gibson, Celebrity Hairstylist, Lobbies for an Oscar for Hair 2012-02-14T21:01:12Z

"His contributions as a playwright, novelist, screenwriter and director are legendary and we mourn the loss of a great artist," said Laurents agent Jonathan Lomma in a statement. "West Side Story" playwright dies in New York City 2011-05-06T16:04:05Z

Poet, artist, novelist, composer, essayist, educator, Tagore was India’s Renaissance man. Footsteps: Where a Poet’s Vision Lives on in India 2013-02-01T18:07:13Z

I went on to become a novelist; Nancy Davis started her own creative production company, which she still runs; Jesse Green became a writer for The New York Times and New York magazine. My Mademoiselle Summer 2013-07-19T20:55:07Z

“On Impact,” by Stephen King After an accident, the novelist had to learn to write again. The Top Twenty-Five Most-Read Archive Stories of 2019 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

Together these novelists form a Himalayan Range of late-20th-century American fiction, intimidating and terrifying. A Personal Foray Into the Long-Lost Pynchon Tapes 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

A longtime reviewer as well as a crime novelist himself, Ripley writes with breezy, infectious enthusiasm. In the golden age of spy fiction, our coolest heroes were shaken, not stirred 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

Brian, an unconventional family dog that talks, drinks alcohol, dates women and is an aspiring novelist, has been a major character since the pilot of "Family Guy" in 1999, appearing in more than 200 episodes. 'Family Guy' fans start petition to resurrect show's beloved talking dog 2013-11-26T02:47:14Z

I was intrigued by something in your acknowledgements, a thank you to your doctor, Jeffrey Karnes, for solving "the novelist's dilemma". 'America beats on you so hard the whole time' 2012-06-16T23:05:27Z

In some respects, that was more the grist for a novelist.” ‘We Own This City’ Brings George Pelecanos Back to Baltimore 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

The novelist may have been describing his own unease and need for escape. The Story of Appalachia, With Plenty of Villains 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

It influenced our novelists, painters, poets and filmmakers. “All Muslim life in America is seen through the lens of terrorism” 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

Revenge on Howe came a decade later in “The Anatomy Lesson,” in the fictional form of Milton Appel, a self-righteously moralizing academic critic who assaults the scandalous fiction of the fictional novelist Nathan Zuckerman. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

Witnessing this sacrilege was Jorge Carrión, a Barcelona-based novelist and essayist who at the time was preparing a cultural history of bookstores. A Love Affair With Bookstores 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

In the kitchen, the band are eating sandwiches and discussing everything from American indie band Fatty Acids to string theory and the suicide of novelist David Foster Wallace. Charlotte Church: my private life 2012-10-05T21:59:00Z

Follett, the bestselling novelist and New Labour donor, entered similar territory last year when he raised the curtain on an award for good writing, though it was accompanied by some laughter from the wings. Anne Fine scores a perfect pen in Follett's book 2010-06-22T16:12:00Z

It was March, and I was there to speak on a panel about Sergei Dovlatov, the comic novelist of late Soviet decay, and Genis came up to me afterward, wanting to talk about books. Prison Is a Great Place to Get Reading Done 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Jeff and Kelly discuss how she can possibly deal with her family obligations while also being fulfilled as a novelist, and there’s no easy answer. Joe Swanberg: “Mumblecore kind of became a dirty word” 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Do novelists worry that their participation in the time-consuming but highly lucrative world of television might cause them to squander their fiction careers, gradually transforming them from ink-stained wretches to Malibu caftan-wearers? When Novelists Turned to TV: Everyone Was Suddenly Using ‘Reveal’ as a Noun 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Tarantino isn’t trying to play here what another novelist/screenwriter, Terry Southern, liked to call the Quality Lit Game. Quentin Tarantino Turns His Most Recent Movie Into a Pulpy Page-Turner 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

“I felt very strongly that we had to be very careful about the facts,” said Meira Chand, a novelist who wrote the story on which the script was based. Singapore’s History Put to Song 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

The word: Upritchard often invites novelists to write stories about her work, in the catalogues that accompany her shows. Artist of the week 205: Francis Upritchard 2012-08-30T11:37:22Z

Paul Torday and Patrick Gale are both great novelists who deserve to be read even more widely. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z

Tom Selleck's sixth turn for CBS as lawman Jesse Stone is bittersweet: The movie is airing less than five months after the death of Robert Parker, the novelist who created Stone. Selleck's new Stone TV film honors late author 2010-05-09T06:16:00Z

After all, if a novelist can make up characters and tell us what they're thinking, why can't he put real people in a novel and know what they are thinking, too? Ghost Light 2010-06-18T23:05:00Z

Debut novelists often have a hard time attracting attention, so publishers and critics look for the little things that set them apart. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Aboard the Pierre Loti — a ferry named for the wayfaring 19th-century novelist — I spied dozens of wheeled carts brimming with groceries. Better than Elba: Echoes of Napoleon on idyllic French islands 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Leonie, the famous septuagenarian novelist in Sam Chanse’s “Disturbance Specialist,” the final monologue, is very much not retired, though a younger generation who deems her tweets problematic is trying to make her go away. ‘Out of Time’ Review: Once Sidelined, Now Taking Center Stage 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

The best way to understand the past is often to read a novelist rather than an historian. Booker rivals clash again on Walter Scott prize shortlist 2010-04-01T12:06:00Z

The family heirlooms displayed for the first time have been lent by her grandchildren, novelist and historian Juliet and Adam Nicolson. Vita Sackville-West's erotic verse to her lover emerges from 'intoxicating night' 2013-04-29T20:24:24Z

Graham Greene said that in response to the move all novelists, poets, and scientists should refuse to let their works be published in the Soviet Union. Alexander Solzhenitsyn is arrested: From the archive, 13 Feb 1974 2013-02-13T07:00:00Z

No doubt any religious novelist faces this problem – the absolute necessity of opening up the exclusive private club to which you belong to the non-members who don't wear its tail-coats or drink its claret. DJ Taylor on the Catholic novel 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

Most important, though, Hemingway became an exemplary stylist for the M.F.A. programs that sprang up across America after the war, and through which many of our canonized poets and novelists have since passed. Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z

In this latest installment of the beloved series, acclaimed novelist A.L. A new ‘Dr. Who’ and other best sci-fi and fantasy for July 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

She is known for her understated personal style, and her dual career as a novelist whose latest book, “The Parrots,” was published last year. Behind the Scenes at British Vogue 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

There is a middle section of love poems dedicated to my wife, Lauren Marie Schmidt, a poet in her own right, as well as a novelist and high school teacher. Poet Martín Espada: "The imagination is absolutely critical to political activism" 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

The "Gavin" on my to-do sticky is Gavin James Bower, novelist and editorial director at Quartet Books, who published Coconut Unlimited. Nikesh Shukla: My desktop 2013-06-05T07:00:00Z

Mr. Steinberg is a self-described “asthmatic Jewish kid,” a young Harvard graduate and a stalled novelist. Books of The Times: True Tales of a Prison Librarian 2010-10-19T16:13:00Z

The novelist gets to move on to their next book. Short is sweet when it comes to fiction 2010-03-17T16:32:00Z

As with many Latin American novelists writing in the 20th century, García Márquez both engaged political movements and was affected by them. Gabriel García Márquez's collection of signed books — from Clinton, Castro — goes to the Ransom Center in Texas 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

There’s also a novel and a story collection, a book of essays about being black and female in white male society, and a graphic novelist’s celebration of rebellious women in history. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

The films are based on novelist J. R. R. Tolkien's epic fantasy series "Lord of the Rings," which followed his novel "The Hobbit." "Hobbit" trailer has film fans buzzing 2011-12-22T00:36:26Z

Her sister, Jaclyn, also a novelist, advised, “Why not have fun with it?” Liane Moriarty writes women’s fiction. Have a problem with that? She doesn’t. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

“A novelist,” he said simply, “partakes of many identities.” Remembering E.L. Doctorow, great American mythologist 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

But if it’s true that “when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it,” then why hasn’t the universe made him a good novelist? Paulo Coelho’s ‘Spy’ uncovers the life of Mata Hari 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Carter's final project, the 2009 independent film That Evening Sun, was shot in Tennessee and was based on a short story by Southern novelist William Gay. Housewives actress Carter dies 2010-04-12T08:37:00Z

He’ll be followed by the Irish novelist Colm Toibin, who on Sept. 17 will read from his new novel, “The Magician,” a portrait of Thomas Mann and the times in which he lived. 92nd Street Y’s New Season Includes Colson Whitehead and Susan Orlean 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

"Switzerland" depicts the novelist engaging in cruel mind games with her young guest while lobbing long-distance insults to her stateside publishers. Laura Linney not staying neutral about 'Switzerland' at Geffen Playhouse 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

She's a graphic novelist who did a book and film called Persepolis. Gemma Arterton: 'Our house was a bit Ab Fab at times' 2013-05-11T23:05:25Z

All English novelists, it seems, have a deliciously wicked sense of humor, including Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë. Sylvia Nasar: By the Book 2012-08-10T14:14:08Z

Wajda, who is collaborating on the project with novelist and playwright Janusz Glowacki, has yet to find an actor to portray the union leader in his shipyard prime. Andrzej Wajda film will shine new light on Lech Walesa 2011-04-04T06:00:11Z

The hugely successful novelist and essayist is often characterized as an “intellectual loner,” with the shadow of his 2001 feud with Oprah seemingly still following him. “Intellectual loner” Jonathan Franzen shows fallibility as “Power Player” on “Jeopardy!” 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

She is pursuing her dream of becoming a novelist. Lonnae O’Neal: When should you give up on who you said you wanted to be? 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Photographs: The Gaskell Society The Manchester home of Elizabeth Gaskell, the Victorian novelist and short story writer, is to be restored thanks to a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £1.85m. Elizabeth Gaskell's Manchester home to get £2.5m restoration 2013-02-13T08:17:36Z

Around the turn of the last century, the novelist Edith Wharton returned from her grand tour to write a book describing Italy’s great villas and their gardens by region. With re-creation of 1500s garden, a reminder of when herb knowledge was a survival tool 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

It claims among its authors the most successful literary novelist of this decade, Hilary Mantel, author of the Booker-winning Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Bad week for women in publishing as two giants step down 2013-07-05T16:03:35Z

Or a celebrity novelist is trying her hand at editing other people’s books. Fleming Adds New Role, Helping Guide Opera Troupe 2010-12-09T22:13:00Z

The 86-year-old crime novelist will be presented with the medal in New York on Nov. 14, the same evening this year's National Book Awards are announced. Author Elmore Leonard wins prestigious book award 2012-09-19T13:26:31Z

You may have heard of the place the novelist sent him: It’s called Monte Carlo. Three New Books On Luxurious Cold-Weather Escapes 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Murakami, the Japanese novelist known for books such as “Kafka on the Shore” and “Norwegian Wood,” withdrew his name from consideration. With No Nobel Prize in Literature This Year, Another Award Steps In 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

Vaughan is a British novelist and former journalist. The false triumph of that nonsensical "Anatomy of a Scandal" ending 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

Yuknavitch’s sex scenes are remarkable among current American novelists, not just for their explicitness but for the way she uses them to pursue questions of agency, selfhood, and the ethical implications of making art. The Wild, Remarkable Sex Scenes of Lidia Yuknavitch 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

Essentially a historical novelist, Pynchon didn’t write the books in that order, but, in retrospect, a faint, probably unwitting design begins to appear. David Kipen's Great American Novel: The works of Thomas Pynchon 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Like Rush that Speaks and Smoky Barnable, Pierce finds himself part of a story; the book he is writing, or perhaps the books he is reading by a nearly forgotten historical novelist named Fellowes Kraft. John Crowley's new epic 'Ka' is a late masterpiece in a stellar fantasy career 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

Morrison, a charismatic writer with a wild imagination, works on a wider canvas with bigger ideas and characters than most novelists. Grant Morrison, The Invisibles and the comics that put novels in the shade 2010-12-19T22:30:01Z

Such emotional sensitivity is exactly what best-selling romance novelist Emma Chase is looking for. Review | What does passion sound like? How five audiobook actors talk sexy. 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

This speaks to how seriously novelists were taken in the 1950s and 1960s, when they enjoyed a cultural cachet unthinkable today. A comprehensive study of a Nobel laureate 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

He constructed and abandoned families the way a novelist composes and discards flawed manuscripts. Review | In Russell Banks’s ‘Foregone,’ a dying man comes clean 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

When I was 9 or 10, I wrote a trilogy of truly dreadful Lloyd Alexander knockoffs, and there’s no doubt in my mind that that was the apex of my career as a novelist. ArtsBeat: Reviewer Spotlight: Kathryn Schulz and the Rightness of Wrongness 2011-03-25T16:23:32Z

For shame, but this single elimination tournament demands a novelist must have four possible "greats" to bring to the party. The Great American Novelist tournament: the final 32 2012-07-23T15:19:53Z

Also, as a novelist, you don’t have to yell at anyone. Sarah Dunn on the Anatomy of an Open Marriage 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

With the guitarist Millard Thomas, who would become his accompanist, and the playwright and novelist William Attaway, who would collaborate on many of his songs, he immersed himself in the study of folk music. Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Well, plus ça change, as the Phantom might say, to return him to the language of Gaston Leroux, the novelist upon whom the musical behemoth is based. Review: Love May Die but Its Phantoms Play Enduring Roles in London 2010-03-09T12:15:00Z

Roger K. Miller, a former Wisconsin newspaper editor, is a novelist and freelance writer and reviewer. Book review: 'Lost in Shangri-La': a plane crash and a daring rescue attempt 2011-04-27T21:58:04Z

The novelist is under no obligation to clear up the mess life makes. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z

A novelist friend of mine says that there are three stories: boy meets girl; a stranger comes to town; someone goes on the journey. The Uneasy Verse of Stevie Smith 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

“That Cold Day in the Park” was based on a novel by a gay novelist named Richard Miles. Bruce LaBruce on 'Virginia Woolf' and Other Influences 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Dabbling in an illegal substance wasn’t just a hippie’s midlife lark — though the 52-year-old novelist does live in Berkeley, Calif. It was a desperate attempt to find happiness. ‘A Really Good Day’: One harried mom’s LSD experiment 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

Quietly, as if stealing in on cat’s paws, he’s become, as a novelist, unignorable. ‘Devil House,’ a Confident, Creepy Novel About a Wicked Unsolved Crime 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

There’s also a charming, funny vignette of lunch with crime novelist Ruth Rendell, spent discussing presumably theoretical ways of committing murder. ‘My Venice:’ Donna Leon writes true stories about her home turf 2013-12-18T22:47:51Z

Until last year, the Booker Prize, which was first given in 1969, was only open to novelists from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth nations. Marilynne Robinson and Anne Tyler Among Booker Prize Nominees 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Dale Peck, the novelist and critic, wrote an essay on the symbolism of the butterfly. Front Row: A Fashion Shoot That Helps Monarch Butterflies 2010-04-21T20:41:00Z

A graduate of Stanford University and the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop, the 37-year-old novelist is married to a university professor and lives in St Louis, Missouri, with her two daughters, aged four and two. Curtis Sittenfeld: 'I know my characters are unlikable sometimes' 2013-06-15T16:30:00Z

Baldwin came of age as a novelist during the days of “From Here to Eternity” and “The Naked and the Dead”—an epoch defined by “muscular prose” and stories steeped in realism. Toni Morrison’s Truth 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Her fellow judge, the novelist Ross Raisin, praised the story's "understatedness". Miroslav Penkov wins BBC international short story award 2012-10-03T12:22:33Z

Ehrenreich, who is divorced, has talked to her children – Rosa, a law professor, and Ben, a journalist and novelist – about her realisation she is old enough to die, but “not in a grim way”. When do you know you're old enough to die? Barbara Ehrenreich has some answers 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z

“I expect you are thinking that this is typical Agatha Christie,” writes the title story’s narrator, herself “a best-selling crime novelist.” Four perfectly drawn short mysteries by the late, great P.D. James 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Rowling among novelists for whose publishers the deadliest sin is spoiling the plot. Dan Brown returns to Europe for 'Inferno' 2013-05-14T04:05:21Z

Still, as a novelist, Despentes has recently completed a remarkable takeover of the literary institutions that once painted her as an outsider. Virginie Despentes Makes France Angry, but Things Are Changing 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

But he is not primarily a novelist, and he doesn’t think like one. Books of The Times: Kurt Andersen’s ‘True Believers,’ Haunted by the ’60s 2012-07-11T21:52:28Z

But her sister's life as a famous romance novelist isn't as easy or drama-free as it seems. New movies to stream over the long weekend, from “Ambulance” to “Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special” 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

Early on, Rushdie reveals that we’re reading a manuscript being written by a middling spy novelist who wants to write “a book radically unlike any other he had ever attempted . . . picaresque and crazy and dangerous.” Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’ is a shambling ‘Don Quixote’ for our deceptive era - The Washington Post 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

His early productivity as a novelist was unremarkable and over the next 15 years he published five novels. James Patterson: a life in writing 2013-05-11T08:02:02Z

I’m reading “The Gift,” the latest from the novelist and performance artist Barbara Browning, whom Alice Gregory profiled for the site. Weekly Culture Review: Bill Cosby on Trial, Hasan Minhaj’s “New Brown America,” and More 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

What can a novelist add to the painstaking work of historians? The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels 2012-10-12T21:54:02Z

You’ll get away from the idea that she was solely a novelist and think of her as someone who was trying all kinds of writing,” Womack said. Rare Toni Morrison short story to be published as a book 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

William Gaddis is the greatest American novelist of the 20th Century. The Great American Novelist tournament: the final 32 2012-07-23T15:19:53Z

In light of Catalonia’s current push for independence from Spain, the Catalan novelist Sales’s “Uncertain Glory” — originally published in 1956 — could not be timelier. A Trove of Continental Fiction Explores Loss 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

Always a better essayist than a novelist, in Homage to Catalonia he is a book-length essayist trying to capture the intimacy of the first-person novelist. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z

Diana Abu-Jaber, a novelist, said that a few years ago she had “a whole nonrelationship” with a fellow writer in Portland, Ore., who would not hit the reply button. Anyone There? 2011-07-15T19:54:11Z

There were a significant number of female novelists, poets and painters in earlier times. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: The Female Factor 2011-01-18T20:58:10Z

Part of that is due to a creative wave flowing through Kander, sparked by his new collaboration with rising playwright and novelist Greg Pierce, who is some 50 years his junior. Composer John Kander Rides New Creative Wave at 86 2013-10-16T14:09:00Z

A bestselling author during the Depression, Wolfe was once considered an American Dostoevsky or Dickens, a novelist whose ambition and scope meant to embody a whole nation. Duos of 'Genius': A. Scott Berg and John Logan, Colin Firth and Jude Law, Maxwell Perkins and Thomas Wolfe 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

And most artists, including novelist Elena Ferrante, who has written a lot about abuse and done everything to conceal her identity, want their work to stand on its own. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

Jones's daughter, novelist Kaylie Jones, said her father fought "bitterly" to keep the novel's language the way he'd originally intended it, but eventually acceded to his editor's insistence. Censored gay sex in From Here to Eternity restored for new edition 2011-04-05T15:20:59Z

At a time when literature is increasingly marginalized in public life, he offers a striking reminder that novelists can provide insights about society that pundits and experts miss. A French Novelist Imagined Sexual Dystopia. Now It’s Arrived. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

"She was an outstanding novelist, short story writer and columnist who engaged millions of people all around the world with her fluent and accessible style," he said. Author Maeve Binchy dies aged 72 2012-07-31T09:27:27Z

Ms. Carroll said Ms. Von Teese was looking for a man who wanted to date the real her, not her public persona, so she was matched with a Scandinavian novelist. No Scrolling Required at New Dating Sites 2012-04-13T22:15:04Z

Here, in fact, we seem to have a case of novelist and adapter so in sync with each other that a sort of symbiosis starts to operate. Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z

For a comic novelist, such human pretension is a gift. What Do Mark Twain, Carpentry and Commodes Have in Common? 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

This illusion of superiority and security, within which the bourgeois novelist traditionally practised his craft, has cracked in recent decades. Mo Yan, Salman Rushdie and censorship 2012-12-13T13:30:04Z

Mr. Garland, a novelist turned screenwriter making his directing debut, sets an eerily, cleverly unsettled stage. Review: In ‘Ex Machina,’ a Mogul Fashions the Droid of His Dreams 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

In “Avid Reader,” he describes helping the novelist and critic Cynthia Ozick overcome her qualms about her writing. Robert Gottlieb: Avid Reader, Reluctant Writer 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

I was fine as long as I didn’t think about the future and my unrealistic ambition to become a poet and novelist. A Prairie Prologue in Nebraska 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

When I do adaptations, I hope that will send some people back to the books because he is an astonishing novelist. "Around the World in 80 Days" co-creator on the twist ending, David Tennant and where to go next 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

This complexity is more than my novelist colleagues in the west can imagine. Li Er: the future of the novel in China 2013-03-15T15:49:26Z

In 1929, Fitzgerald was the timekeeper in a sparring match between Hemingway and the Canadian novelist Morley Callaghan, who years earlier served on the staff at The Toronto Star with Hemingway. What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

Reactions to Gilbert’s decision were mixed, with some applauding her sensitivity to an ongoing international crisis, and others expressing concern about the consequences of pressuring novelists to avoid certain subjects and settings. ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author Pulls New Book Set in Russia 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

They are what painters and sculptors were to the Renaissance, what composers and poets were to the 19th century, what novelists and, later, auteur film directors, were to the 20th. “Steve Jobs,” portrait of the artist as tech guru: What we lose when we worship at the altar of commerce 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Directed and written by "Perks" novelist Stephen Chbosky, the film follows these characters and their friends through all the rituals of a school year in suburban Pittsburgh. Review: 'Wallflower' a thoughtful teen tale 2012-09-20T03:27:14Z

“America’s greatest living novelist”? We’re not cops, zapping passing novelists with a radar talent gun. In Fiction, Martin Amis Summons His Literary Friends and Role Models 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

Spiel was a realist novelist with a great sense of atmosphere and place and also a courageous openness to the fact that people don’t often feel what they ought to feel. ArtsBeat: Life During Wartime: Lara Feigel Talks About ‘The Love-charm of Bombs’ 2013-07-10T17:56:38Z

As a novelist, how did you balance wanting to tell an honest story with wanting to write a satisfying conclusion? What it feels like to be a bestseller: Stephanie Danler and 'Sweetbitter' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

His time at Michigan newspapers included a stint at The Flint Journal, where he met his wife, a journalist and novelist. Retired AP investigative reporter Pete Yost dies at age 73 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

Thomas Leveritt, the novelist credited as screenwriter for this largely improvised, fitfully ingratiating film, might say that, in virtually every movie romance, the lovers-to-be are metaphorically chained together. Tonight You're Mine: A Ball-and-Chain, Rock-'n'-Roll Romance 2012-05-10T15:39:58Z

Philip Roth is the darling of opponents of the Swedish Academy, who believe the veteran American novelist has been overlooked. The gripes of Roth: US incredulity at not winning the Nobel literature prize 2012-10-11T18:07:59Z

But if a novelist gets it wrong – first of all, a novelist can't get it wrong in the same way. In conversation: Nathan Englander and Jonathan Safran Foer 2012-02-10T09:00:01Z

When it comes to negative reviews, the disincentives for a novelist or a poet are still more obvious. Bookends: Are Novelists Too Wary of Criticizing Other Novelists? 2013-09-03T17:19:22Z

She was one of Britain's first authentically working-class novelists, earning international fame with her 1925 book This Slavery which was reviewed glowingly everywhere – the then Manchester Guardian called it "remarkable and distinctly original". Helen of Four Gates to get screening after 80-year hiatus 2010-05-31T14:38:00Z

Even as a full-time novelist, Dickens never left performance entirely behind. Charles Dickens the dramatist: why it should've been an actor's life for Boz 2012-02-08T16:53:08Z

“For the task of the spy is not so very different from that of the novelist: to create an imaginary, credible world and then lure others into it by words and artifice.” Books of The Times: ?Operation Mincemeat? by Ben Macintyre 2010-05-11T21:44:00Z

Le Carré is often described as an outsider, a dissident, or dismissed by the minions of high culture as a genre novelist. Profile: John le Carr? 2011-03-30T11:54:55Z

Are you, worst of all, someone no novelist would ever be interested in? Novels about the Internet can still be compelling 2013-01-19T23:00:00Z

You write that your mother never approved of you as a romance novelist. Mary Bly (aka Eloisa James) Talks to TIME About Her Literary Double Life 2012-05-18T11:00:52Z

It's an adventure, but the other real struggle was, I'll be honest, Roth is one of our great novelists. "Democracy is never perfected": David Simon on his new HBO series and the 2020 "s**tshow" election 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

But then, why would anyone want to read a book about a novelist with writer's block struggling with a new approach to the Holocaust and featuring a talking donkey? Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - review 2011-03-19T00:06:24Z

This is perhaps owed partly to the fact that Pelecanos got a late start as a TV writer, just as he got a late start as a novelist. ‘We Own This City’ Brings George Pelecanos Back to Baltimore 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

The popular crime procedural, inspired by the life of forensic anthropologist and novelist Kathy Reichs, is now in its eighth season. Monday TV Picks: 'Bones' on Fox 2012-11-10T00:42:07Z

“It sounded intriguing and a bit insane,” said Ben Marcus, the novelist who joined The American Reader as its fiction editor in the fall. Uzoamaka Maduka Leaves a Paper Trail With the American Reader 2013-01-02T22:14:17Z

These were rejected but with encouraging comments from William Maxwell, the novelist and editor who would become Updike’s mentor when the magazine hired him in 1955. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z

In 1932 Galsworthy would be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature; Conrad, of course, is now universally regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time. Review | The literary tastemaker who helped bring Joseph Conrad and E.M. Forster to light 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

Stephen King, a horror novelist, in an entertaining rant against the passive in his autobiography, refers to it several times as the “passive tense”. Passive panic 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

He wasn't always going to be a novelist, though. Alan Hollinghurst: 'The Booker can drive people mad' 2012-05-19T23:05:49Z

As the novelist Jacob Rubin wrote recently at Slate, in an appreciation of Dana Carvey’s Bush impression, a good impersonation “does not seem like a studied replication so much as an emotional communion.” Kate McKinnon’s Genius Hillary Impersonation 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

The ring goes up for auction on 10 July in London, alongside first editions by the novelist including one of Pride and Prejudice, with a guide price of £20,000 to £30,000. Jane Austen's gold ring goes up for auction 2012-07-06T12:41:04Z

“I thought I was going to be a novelist as a kid, but I was really bad at describing things,” he says during an interview in mid-October at New York Comic Con. ‘Harmontown,’ a documentary that’s not always so kind to its subject

How did your experience and ability as a novelist help you understand and tell this story? Writer Greg Olear on “Dirty Rubles”: Trump is “gravest existential threat” to America in... 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

The dream of being a novelist is over.” ‘The Yearling’ author’s homestead is a doorway to a quirky Florida subculture 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

More than other biographers, Ackroyd brings out the contrast between Collins’s serenity — “He was perhaps the sweetest-tempered of all the Victorian novelists” — and the poor health that dogged him for much of his life. The writer who liberated the mystery story from drafty castles 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Why would they be novelists if they didn’t? Jonathan Safran Foer’s ‘Here I Am’ chronicles troubles at home and abroad 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

In Castine, a bijou town of shipwright homes on the promontory’s east coast, the poet Robert Lowell shared a colonial with his wife, the novelist Elizabeth Hardwick, in the 1950s and ’60s. Blue Hill, a Literary Enclave, Grows in Downeast Maine 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

There is no simple way to tell the story, and Ms. Portman’s film, closely based on a memoir by the Israeli novelist Amos Oz, is full of mixed emotions and chronological tangles. Review: From Natalie Portman, Israel’s Birth Distilled in Mood and Memory 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

The "carve up" concerns the UK, and the novel is a memorable and explicit commentary on Thatcherism, a topic that many other novelists shrank from. How Margaret Thatcher left her mark on British culture 2013-04-13T17:00:00Z

Mr. Netanyahu, a radiologist and novelist, is not the most natural of playwrights. Review: ‘A Happy End,’ Iddo Netanyahu’s Play Set in 1930s Berlin 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Jan, an aspiring science-fiction writer, enjoys writing feverish letters to American science-fiction novelists, asking for their help in calling attention to the devastating effects of American and Soviet proxy wars in Latin America. Roberto Bolaño and the Beat Connection 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

The Japanese novelist pays homage to “The Great Gatsby” in this mysterious tale of a portrait painter whose wife has left him, causing him to flee from Tokyo to the mountains. New in Paperback: Rebecca Traister’s ‘Good and Mad’ and Tina Turner’s ‘My Love Story’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

In 1997, he and his friend the novelist Herman Wouk, of all people, wrote one based on Mr. Wouk’s 1965 novel, “Don’t Stop the Carnival.” Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

One cannot expect a novelist to have all the answers to the issues he is tackling. ‘You Don’t Have to Live Like This’ review: Trouble rebuilding Detroit 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

It would take a novelist to imagine the backstage conversations about drapes and vases that might have taken place between de Wolfe and Wharton, whose book with Codman was a pioneering work in the field. A Lost Edith Wharton Play Emerges from Scholarly Sleuthing 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

The Argentine novelist Samanta Schweblin, whose second book, “Mouthful of Birds,” was published in January, said Luiselli’s vision is a cross between the Latin American and the North American views of the world. Valeria Luiselli, At Home in Two Worlds 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Occupation A novelist whose books include “The Cartel” and most recently “The Force” A Tour of Don Winslow’s Ranch in Southern California 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

DM: The novelist James Lee Burke once said that “the important battles are being fought in places no one has ever heard of.” The new documentary “Trapped” takes viewers to the bloodiest battlefield in the American “war on women” 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

In a short introduction, the British novelist Ali Smith suggests that Emerence may indeed be Hungary itself. The Hungarian Despair of Magda Szabó’s “The Door” 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

How would this exhibition be regarded, we wonder, if it were merely the product of an ahead-of-his-time 19th-century visual artist—and not someone who’s also one of the greatest novelists ever? ‘Stones to Stains: The Drawings of Victor Hugo’ Review: A Writer’s Other, Haunting Talent 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

Roger K. Miller is a novelist and freelance writer and editor. 'Moonwalking with Einstein': How not to forget what we remember 2011-03-03T00:38:06Z

“We must always be on guard against mediocre cussing in our writing,” the novelist Katherine Dunn wrote, in a small book called “On Cussing.” Two Lifetime Crooks Wait for a Missing Daughter, With Shades of Beckett 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

And novelist Celeste Ng tweeted at Handler: "Thank you for that sincere apology & supporting WNDB. You turned a mistake into a great example & help for a good cause." Daniel Handler announces donation to diverse children's book campaign 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

This past week, the novelist Cormac McCarthy published the first nonfiction piece of his career, a three-thousand-word essay titled “The Kekulé Problem,” in the popular science magazine Nautilus. Cormac McCarthy Explains the Unconscious 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

If anything, Miller seems to want to improve upon Fitzgerald, to do away with the novelist’s brooding and ironic detachment in favor of a more glamorous celebration of city life. ‘Supreme City,’ by Donald L. Miller 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Booker prize winning novelist Yann Martel Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Talking about the at nine in the morning in the elegant lounge of a trendy boutique hotel in central London is not ideal. Yann Martel 2010-06-22T19:00:00Z

Flynn, a former entertainment journalist turned novelist, is talking about “Gone Girl,” her blockbuster third novel. ‘Gone Girl’ author talks twists, turns and a marriage’s icy heart 2014-04-09T20:04:06Z

Historians push back against the obliteration of chaos, time and shame, but talented novelists have also offered their creative gifts in this sacred process of remembrance. ‘The Book of Aron,’ by Jim Shepard, is a masterpiece 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

The novelist fled the stage, while Alexander quieted the rival armies by offering an apology and vowing to do better. The Literati: Henry James’s Final Curtain Call 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

She has been called, for example, the first great millennial novelist, and “Salinger for the Snapchat generation.” ‘It Was Like I’d Never Done It Before’: How Sally Rooney Wrote Again 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z

Yorkey sums up his own intentions with a thought from the late novelist David Foster Wallace, whose clinical depression led to his suicide. 'Next to Normal,' coming to 5th Avenue, tries to paint authentic picture of mental illness 2011-02-16T23:19:17Z

But nowadays, Franzen complained, Time was giving its covers to the likes of Scott Turow and Stephen King, novelists better known for the size of their contracts than for their literary talent. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z

As news of the death of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Harper Lee filters around the globe, so do Twitter reactions upon, not just her passing, but her life. Harper Lee dies, Twitter mourns but celebrates her life 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

For a serious literary novelist, Jonathan Franzen manages to get into his fair share of scrapes. In praise of ? Jonathan Franzen 2010-10-06T23:05:00Z

A massive theme, which few novelists then or now would dare to take on. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z

But it was his film adaptation of novelist Roald Dahl's dark fantasy "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" that brought him the most fame, and it was inspired by a request from his daughter. "Willy Wonka" director Mel Stuart dies at age 83 2012-08-10T19:15:04Z

Louis Bayard is a novelist and reviewer in Washington. ‘The Bassoon King’ review: There’s more to Rainn Wilson than Dwight Schrute 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

But “The Man With the Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters” is much less about Fleming’s glamorous cavorting than it is about his brazen hustle to become a famous commercial novelist. Review: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters in ‘The Man With the Golden Typewriter’ 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

"Chuck's" Sarah Lancaster is a romance novelist who's "Looking for Mr. Right" in this new TV movie. TV This Week June 1 -7: 'Enough Said' on HBO 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

Mary Widdicks is a former cognitive psychologist, freelance writer and novelist. Perspective | Parental guilt is a cultural epidemic. It’s time to let go of who we ‘should’ be. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

But then he received a call from novelist David Foster Wallace who at the suggestion of a mutual unnamed friend recommended ECT. Review | Donald Antrim’s ‘One Friday in April’ is a vital book about mental illness and recovery 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

It was founded in 1959 by André Malraux, the famed novelist and France’s minister of cultural affairs, and for most of those years it was known as the Biennale des Antiquaires. Out With the Old, and in With La Biennale Paris 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

Russian novelist Fyodr Dostoevsky wrote in the 19th century: "It's possible to express all thoughts, feelings and even deep analytical thoughts just by saying this one noun." Russia launches swearing ban; books, films, plays risk fines 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

I was a college student in creative writing, an aspiring novelist, an intern at a national magazine – and a heroin addict for the past three years. From dominatrix to professor: ‘I didn’t want my students to imagine me tying men up’ 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

Based in 1930s Germany Cabaret follows a novelist from America named Cliff Bradshaw who falls in love with Sally, a singer from the seedy Kit Kat Klub. Miller returns to Broadway in Cabaret 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Turturro, the veteran actor, had been friends with the novelist for nearly a quarter-century when Roth died in 2018 at 85. How Philip Roth’s Raunchiest Novel Made It to the Stage 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z

The narrator, who, like the island, is unnamed, is a novelist. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

The fact that he's getting yet another outing got me thinking about recurring characters, and how novelists handle them. Why Jilly Cooper should not let racy Rupert grow old disgracefully 2012-08-06T14:58:54Z

In addition to writing several other books about Carroll, Mr. Cohen is the author of a biography of H. Rider Haggard, the British adventure novelist whose books include “King Solomon’s Mines.” Morton Cohen, Scholar of Lewis Carroll and His Wonderland, Dies at 96 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

Letterman, who hosted 6,028 late-night shows in 33 years on the air, will be awarded the 20th annual prize named for the 19th century U.S. novelist and satirist on Oct. David Letterman to be awarded Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Jo Nesbo, the celebrated Norwegian writer of thrillers, is the latest contributor to Hogarth Shakespeare, a series in which best-selling novelists turn Shakespeare’s works into contemporary fiction. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Mankell and two siblings were mostly raised by their father, a judge, in the central Swedish town of Sveg, a backwater the future novelist described as surrounded by bears and “Christmas tree forests.” Henning Mankell, literary master of ‘Nordic noir,’ dies at 67 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

But, she tells me, it was pure fury at violence against women that turned her into a novelist. Kishwar Disai on rape in India 2013-05-27T17:00:00Z

In some cases the would-be poet becomes a better playwright or novelist, and this seems especially true in the case of William Faulkner. Five Poets That Yusef Komunyakaa Returns to Again and Again 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

Wheeler has the novelist Anne Tyler's eye for the comedy of humdrum detail, and for the poignancy of human aspiration. O My America! Second Acts in a New World by Sara Wheeler – review 2013-04-06T15:00:01Z

If “Emily Climbs” seems like a singular story, it’s actually two stories, told by three actors playing the same character, who shares a name with a book by the Canadian novelist L.M. Review: In ‘Emily Climbs (Machine Méchant),’ a Botched Rebirth 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

The novelist, better known for the award-winning The Testimony of Taliesin Jones, wrote the screenplay just over a year ago, and admits that football is not what the film is really about. Africa United reveals the other side of a continent 2010-10-02T23:07:00Z

The bestselling Scottish novelist has been the recipient of an outpouring of goodwill and support from his readers since he told them in early April that he was "officially very poorly". Iain Banks updates fans on his cancer 2013-05-21T11:15:43Z

“I long for the days when clean eating meant not getting too much down your front,” the novelist Susie Boyt joked recently. Why we fell for clean eating 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

The documentary “Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time” takes the importance of the novelist as a given, although years after his death in 2007, his ostensible significance still sets off conflicts on social media. ‘Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time’ Review: An Idol Shares the Camera 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Grossman, one of Israel’s pre-eminent novelists and thinkers, has written fiction, nonfiction and children’s literature; his work has been widely translated, garnering him numerous international awards, including the 2017 Man Booker International Prize. David Grossman’s New Novel Is a Multigenerational Saga of Love and Loss 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Lately, however, Tolstoy and Flaubert have had stiff competition on the self-harm front, thanks to women novelists intent on exploring their female characters’ propensity to act out their unhappiness on their bodies. Heroines of Self-Hate 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

Whereas I as the novelist could have chosen to show more than that, but I didn’t. Dennis Lehane on writing, family and his new novel, 'Since We Fell' 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

When she won a writing contest in the late 1970s, the judge of the competition, novelist Mary Gordon, showed Mrs. Shivers’s manuscript to an agent. Louise Shivers, late-blooming author of ‘Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail,’ dies at 84

But Moggach does not like being described and marketed as a popular novelist, any better than she likes being called a women's writer. Deborah Moggach: a life in writing 2013-02-16T07:04:01Z

The acclaimed novelist, creative nonfiction writer and professor is stepping in to teach some extra classes just after our call. "You have to think about hope": Author Silas House on democracy's demise, climate refugees and dogs 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

Yet the novelist in Davis knows that Fannie’s whole story was more complicated than a daughter’s protectiveness will allow. Remembering a Mother Whose Gambling Operation Was a Very Successful Secret 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

She found the proof, she said, in the novel “Atticus Pünd Takes the Case,” the third in a series by the late novelist Alan Conway and, it seems, a coded fictional reinterpretation of the crime. One Whodunit Nests Inside Another in ‘Moonflower Murders’ 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

You could call him a novelist of ideas, but also a philosopher working in fiction. J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Sees the World as Don Quixote Does 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

His magic, though, is in his gifts, which can resemble Henry James’s, as a social novelist. In Alan Hollinghurst’s Latest, a Hazy Sex Scandal Looms Over Many Lives 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

A lot of novelists try to capture Washington, but not many get it right. Review | Which D.C. novel best captures the city? 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

Austen may be celebrated as the quintessential novelist of manners, but her wit can be cruel and her portraits unsparing. In Trying Times, the Balm of Jane Austen 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

Organized by novelist Marie Myung-Ok Lee, the session assembled fiction writers who were Korean and American at the same time, parsing the irritating challenges of being marginalized and assimilated. The kimchi revolution: How Korean-American chefs are changing food culture 2014-04-07T23:00:00Z

Ackerley’s “My Dog Tulip” to Stefan Zweig’s “The Post-Office Girl” with many, many others in between, including the nearly complete oeuvres of two master prose stylists, novelist Henry Green and travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor. These small presses can help you think big about summer reading 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

There are few American novelists writing today who can spin a yarn as winningly. ‘Lucky Us,’ by Amy Bloom, America’s Victor Hugo

"Alan Moore is widely considered to be one of the greatest graphic novelists of all time," reads the press release. Alan Moore to write first work for screen 2012-06-25T14:47:33Z

“Countries of Origin” is filled with these pleasures, the little “not-abouts” talented novelists enjoy among their more pragmatic aims. The Horrors of Immigration and the Pleasures of Food in a Debut Novel 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

In 1951, Wouk became a major literary star with the release of “The Caine Mutiny,” for which Wouk was compared to other World War II novelists: Mailer, Irwin Shaw, James Jones. Herman Wouk, a consummate writer until the end, dies at 103 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

For New Yorker critic James Wood, under the headline "What can't the novelist David Mitchell do?" David Mitchell: 'I don't want to project myself as this great experimenter' 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z

The local novelist and artist Douglas Coupland described Vancouver as the City of Glass, which says a lot about the new city. My Vancouver: An Ever-Unfolding Story 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

In the spirit of driving discovery, we asked Ms. Straub and five other novelists in the independent book business what they are reading and recommending to customers this summer. Summer Reading Recommendations, From 6 Novelists Who Own Bookstores 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

When a protagonist becomes a phenomenon, I am always interested in whether the novelist remembers the exact moment of conception. Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing 2012-07-06T21:55:16Z

Like you, I imagine, I always felt that Beryl deserved to be publicly recognised as the rare, influential and original contemporary British novelist she was. Is the 'Beryl Bainbridge Booker' a good thing? 2011-02-13T00:05:32Z

By mutual agreement, he personally copy-edits the books of just one author, the novelist Elizabeth Strout, in the manner of an accountant who now runs the company but still prepares taxes for a beloved client. Meet the Guardian of Grammar Who Wants to Help You Be a Better Writer 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

The acclaimed British novelist made up her mind about the eventual winner – student Laura McClelland – just 10 days before she went into hospital, where she died on 2 July. Prize judged by Beryl Bainbridge goes to London student 2010-07-21T11:35:00Z

“His work is hauntingly beautiful,” novelist Roxana Robinson wrote for Slate in 2013, but she also deplored his depiction of women “almost solely in physical terms.” James Salter, novelist with exquisite prose style, dies at 90 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

The novelists of the period also relished good bad weather. Adam Foulds salutes Romantic Moderns, winner of the Guardian first book award 2010-12-02T14:09:00Z

Taking up what is a sadly topical theme, which will no doubt continue to inspire writers for some time is Austrian novelist Arno Geiger's beautifully titled book about a father's descent into Alzheimer's. New Europe: reading up on Germany's bestselling books 2011-03-14T17:54:11Z

One of the heartbreaking masterpieces of arguably the finest American novelist of the 20th century. Review | The copyright has expired on thousands of books. Here are the best ones to read. 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

He himself was certainly a wizard of the page, the most endearing comic novelist since P.G. ‘The Shepherd’s Crown’ review: The final Discworld novel 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

"The Girl in the Spider's Web" was written by David Lagercrantz, a Swedish crime reporter and novelist, who was selected by the estate to continue the series. New 'Dragon Tattoo' book cover revealed 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

Another goes full metal Oxford, tying a series of murders to alchemy and the theories of the minor British novelist and theologian Charles Williams. Review: In Final Season of ‘Inspector Lewis,’ Solving Mysteries While Navigating a New Boss 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Artists without sponsors — novelists or painters who want to spend some time producing their work in Britain, for instance — are often unable to come unless they lie and say they are tourists. Britain?s Conflicting Entry Rules Stymie Visiting Artists 2011-10-19T21:55:14Z

His words are punctuated by another Opinion piece, this one from the novelist Benjamin Nugent. Motherlode Blog: Is Asberger's Syndrome over-diagnosed, and should it be diagnosed at all? 2012-02-01T18:47:42Z

The postwar revelations of the Soviet penetration of the British secret service by the Cambridge spies cast a long, baleful shadow – not least over our novelists and screenwriters. Restless – and its roots in the Cambridge spy ring 2012-12-21T22:55:09Z

Perhaps this is the benefit of asking a novelist to write the songs. Words and Music: Ben Folds and Nick Hornby Make an Album 2010-09-29T17:35:00Z

I wish Ward had not employed the tricks of lesser novelists, such as contrived cliffhangers and misdirection in order to engender suspense. A Widow Takes Her Grown Kids on a Cruise. What Could Go Wrong? 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

And it’s an astonishing tale: I couldn’t believe I was the first novelist to work it over. ArtsBeat: Thomas Mallon on the Fact and Fiction of 'Watergate' 2012-02-22T16:00:18Z

The British novelist John Berger suggested Mr. Rushdie withdraw the novel, lest it unleash “a unique 20th-century holy war” that would endanger bystanders who were “innocent of either writing or reading the book.” The Stabbing of Salman Rushdie Renews Free Speech Debates 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

About the author: Mantel, who won the Man Booker in 2009 with Wolf Hall, is the only novelist to have featured on the shortlist of six before. Man Booker 2012: Shortlist at a glance 2012-09-11T15:43:40Z

Franco discovered Franklin’s work this year while directing and starring in a movie version of “The Long Home” by the late Tennessee novelist William Gay. And so it goes: James Franco narrates ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

From the multiple storytellers in his first novel, Moth Smoke, to the book-long monologue of , the skill has won the novelist acclaim. Mohsin Hamid 2013-03-26T19:07:18Z

He cites Charles Dickens as inspiration for his intertwined shows, explaining how his approach compares to that of the British novelist. New breed ‘Law & Order’ brings back NYPD detective Stabler 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

I'm suspicious of any novelist who would honestly answer no to this question, and yet my strong temptation, when I'm asked it myself, is to answer no. Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom 2012-05-25T21:55:12Z

Featured speaker is novelist Amy Tan; Nancy Pearl will emcee the event. Seattle author named finalist for Pen Faulkner award 2014-03-14T18:30:59Z

Every good politician is a storyteller, and Abrams is a novelist with several titles under her belt. Stacey Abrams Has a Message for You: Get Involved 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

A natural raconteur, he seems to precisely fit Henry James’s famous description of the novelist as one “on whom nothing is lost.” ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Frank Langella Telling Tales 2012-04-12T19:11:46Z

I have no expertise in the semiotics of the slap, but I am reminded of what one of America's funniest novelists, Paul's Beatty, made of the gesture. Will Smith and the function of a slap – what it means for comedy and comedians 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the more apt comparison would be to novelists like Pearl S. Buck and James Michener, writers who once occupied a now defunct space somewhere between literary and popular fiction. Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman" Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

Ms. Mantel was one of Britain’s most decorated novelists. Hilary Mantel, Prize-Winning Author of Historical Fiction, Dies at 70 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

It’s an ambitious project for any novelist, much less one who, like Ms. Proulx, is now 80. Review: Annie Proulx’s ‘Barkskins’ Is an Epic Tale of Logging and Doom 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

But I knew I wanted a novelist to write it. Alice Walker and Colm Toibin, and Their Trail of Words 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

Sam was once a concert pianist; Tusker is a novelist and an astronomy enthusiast. ‘Supernova’ Review: On the Road, to a Heartbreaking Destination 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

News of their fates, and even the present-tense unfolding of them, seems to arrive from a distance, second- or third-hand, rather like the scuttlebutt on that feminist novelist. Theater Review: Simon Gray’s ‘Common Pursuit,’ by Roundabout Theater Company 2012-05-25T02:01:01Z

But by folding in a novelist, short story writer, and two poets alongside recognized essayists, D’Agata enlarges the scope and purpose of the essay as a genre. Dealing in uncertainty, the essay may be the perfect form for our time 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

When Mr. Trump discharged his first round of spite tweets, Ms. Kelly’s husband, the novelist Douglas Brunt, demanded to know what Fox was going to do. Review: Megyn Kelly Tells Tales Out of Fox News in Her Memoir, ‘Settle for More’ 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Klam’s narrator is a 42-year-old graphic novelist named Rich Fischer, who first signed on with this summer program years ago when he was the hot new thing. Sex and the middle-aged man 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

On Friday, Dutton spokeswoman Amanda Walker confirmed a statement that the publisher’s customer service line has been giving to inquiring callers, saying that it had “terminated its relationship” with the best-selling crime novelist. Publisher drops Central Park 5 prosecutor Linda Fairstein 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z

"In the beginning, people weren't sure what to expect. Who's going to come to a book festival in Los Angeles?" novelist Paula Woods recalls asking. Times' celebration of the written word opens its 20th chapter 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The novelist Walker Percy called “The Omni-Americans” “the most important book on black-white relations in the United States, indeed on American culture,” published in his generation. Albert Murray, Essayist Who Challenged the Conventional, Dies at 97 2013-08-19T16:57:56Z

Moorcock's biography reads like a rebuke to every wannabe novelist who's pottering through a creative writing MFA. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z

Featuring local favorites like novelist Catie Disabato and comic Solomon Georgio, among others, Romantic Comedy is an all too rare opportunity to see prose writers and comedy writers share a stage. First-ever Lambda LitFest in LA tonight 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

As a novelist, I find it important to pay attention to not only its stories but also its silences. Read Your Way Through Istanbul 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

And she now joins William Wells Brown, Harriet E. Wilson, and Frank J. Webb as the only African-American published novelists in the entire century. “True Love”: The Victorian (re)discovery that transformed our understanding of black women’s literature 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

For an English novelist who also happens to be Jewish, ‘The Merchant of Venice’ is where it all snarls up.” Arts, Briefly: Two More Writers for Shakespeare Effort 2013-09-09T10:00:01Z

In 1975 the Nigerian novelist delivered a lecture, “An Image of Africa: Racism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness,” which was then published as an essay. The Contradictions of Joseph Conrad 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Cárdenas, a Colombian novelist and translator, is also an art critic and curator, and “Ornamental,” in the guise of a medical research study, smashes together art, science and philosophy in a fast-moving 124 pages. The Pill That Makes Life Shine Brighter, Fallout Be Damned 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

The respected novelist, broadcaster and Labour peer fronts the South Bank Show and other programming on Sky's digital channel. BBC2 gets radical with Melvyn Bragg documentary 2013-06-12T12:54:24Z

As a lawyer, a law professor, a mother and now a novelist, it undergirds all she does. Natashia Deón may be the hardest-working debut novelist in Los Angeles 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

The literary calendar will kick off on Sept. 27, with a reading by the novelist Michael Chabon. 92nd Street Y Draws Alec Baldwin, Matthew Weiner and Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

Though Scout is making a big investment in Mr. Clegg, he is a less risky bet than many first-time novelists. Bill Clegg’s Debut Novel Is ‘Did You Ever Have a Family’ 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Criticism and biography must learn from the novelist’s practice of imaginative empathy, Johnson argues. A Rebellious Victorian Woman Rescued From History’s Shadows 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Most novelists would agree that chatting with a friend is more pleasurable than writing novels. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

“Most novelists, no matter how popular, fall into obscurity,” she wrote. The Custodian of Forgotten Books 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

And like the novelist may spend month – years, even - revising their purple prose until it's fit for the shelves, programmers should always clean up their code. SXSW 2011: Programming and minimalism: Lessons from Orwell and The Clash ? review 2011-03-11T22:26:16Z

Noel Coward's play tells the story of a novelist haunted by his dead wife. War and Peace to take over Radio 4 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Sylvan Mason Bernardine Bishop, who has died aged 73, made her mark as a novelist with Unexpected Lessons in Love, published in January. Bernardine Bishop obituary 2013-07-05T14:10:45Z

And in another work they created, “The Other Here,” based on stories by the Japanese novelist Masuji Ibuse, Ms. Parson reinvented traditional Japanese dances, conveying the conflict between old and new Japanese culture. Dance: ?Supernatural Wife,? a New York Dance Premiere 2011-11-27T05:10:08Z

Here we have two popular novelists, known for genre fiction, addressing issues of the utmost gravity: how we treat our veterans, in “Full Measure,” and how we have long treated coal miners, in “Gray Mountain.” Fiction: ‘Full Measure’ is a moving portrait of Marines who fought in Afghanistan

He’s an important nonfiction writer who may become an important novelist, but he isn’t one yet. Times Critics Discuss Their Year in Books, From New Talents to Old Favorites 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Whenever someone asks me to name today’s top suspense novelists, my short list always includes Tana French. Tana French’s ‘The Secret Place’: The Dublin Murder Squad takes on the Mean Girls

And yet Spinney, a novelist and science writer, argues that almost a century later, the Spanish flu is “still emerging from the shadows of the First World War” in our collective memories. Three Books That Track Diseases, Drugs and the World They Made 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

Now she's a novelist herself, having sold her debut, The Hive, for a six-figure sum after a bidding war last year. Gill Hornby: 'We all go slighty bonkers when our children are little' 2013-05-19T06:00:25Z

As a seven-time published novelist, Perrotta explains why he’s drawn to such controversial topics and the commonality behind all great writers. Sex in suburbia 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

“The past is a foreign country,” the British novelist L. P. Hartley wrote. Bow and Cooper in ‘Children of Divorce’: Poor Little Silent Rich Kids 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. Murphy offered would-be novelists a free primer on his website. Warren Murphy, Writer and Creator of Remo Williams, Dies at 81 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

The woman sobbing over the fish counter is Katya Geller: novelist, mother of two teenagers, professor of creative writing at “Enormous University” in New York. A Romantic Comedy So Dark It Makes You Cry 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

"You don't want me to 'pull a Robert Jordan' on you," Martin blogged to the circling hordes of hungry readers, referring to a fantasy novelist who passed away before completing his magnum opus. George RR Martin: Barbarians at the gate 2011-04-13T20:30:00Z

It was an unusual choice for any novelist. A history of the present 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

“There are so few works of Korean literature in translation, especially contemporary stuff,” said Ed Park, a Korean-American novelist and executive editor at Penguin Press. ‘The Vegetarian,’ a Surreal South Korean Novel 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

It involves Samson Young, an American novelist suffering from writer’s block, and a host of other characters, in whom a reader will find few redeeming qualities. A Brief Guide to Martin Amis’s Books 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

Gilmour released a 2006 solo album, “On an Island,” that featured lyrics by Samson, a novelist and short story writer; the Los Angeles Times’ review  described it as “a sentimental ode to their family life.” New Pink Floyd album based on 1994 sessions may be coming this fall 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

Elizabeth Hand is a novelist whose thriller, “Hard Light,” will be published in April. ‘A Man Lies Dreaming’: Imagining Hitler as a low-rent private detective 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

He is also quietly excited to announce he is playing the lead in People, Places and Things, James Strouse’s new film about a graphic novelist. Jemaine Clement: Australians have a great attitude to being made fun of 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

I think novelists are the people who don't really know what people are talking about much of the time. Who do you think you are? 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

And he was, in the first phase of his career, a novelist, a critic and a scholar. 2010-01-12T23:36:00Z

In one of the few positive reviews of The Humbling, the novelist James Lever remarked that the recent novels mostly boil down to "irony and scenery", and sometimes precious little scenery. Nemesis by Philip Roth 2010-10-02T09:03:00Z

The outing scripted by the children's novelist will feature a host of young actors, including Harley Bird, the voice of Peppa Pig. Cottrell Boyce writes Doctor episode 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

In his thrilling “The March of the Barbarians,” Lamb, both an adventure novelist and a historian, focuses on the Mongol incursions into China, High Asia and Europe. Review | We may not be able to leave the house, but these transporting books whisk us to Central Asia 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

He was also an art critic, a novelist, a political writer and a satirist, though much of this was known only long after his death. Diderot Was Way Ahead of His Time — and He Knew It 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

The desire of a novelist is always to make a good living off of writing. How ‘The Alienist’ Finally Found a Screen 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

The British novelist Jon McGregor is interested in the bystanders to public disasters — the people in the background of the television shot. A Girl Vanishes. But in This Novel, Time Is the Real Mystery. 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Yet in 2018 he spent his downtime between Star Wars episodes writing and directing his love letter to Christie, a novelist hitherto considered to be the purveyor of hot-water-bottle-cosy murder mysteries. Shedunnit – how Agatha Christie became cinema hot property 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

In making a novelist struggling with overnight fame one of her central characters, she has placed her own angst on the page. Review | Sally Rooney’s latest novel is a lucid, nuanced story about coming of age in a broken world 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Translated by Stephen Snyder, the acclaimed Japanese writer’s fifth English release is an elegantly spare dystopian fable narrated by a novelist who hides her editor under the floorboards of her home office. ‘Read Receipts’ On: Two Dystopian Novels Predict the Surveillance State 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

This is why novelists like Khalifa are so critical in these times. A Father’s Corpse Journeys Across War-Torn Syria in This Masterly Novel 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

“Haven’t the novelist and the anthropologist more in common than some people think?” In Praise of Barbara Pym 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

The novelist and journalist, whose most recent book is the memoir “Places and Names,” thinks Vronsky gets a bad rap in “Anna Karenina”: “I believe that he loved Anna, in his strange broken way.” By the Book: Elliot Ackerman 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

“The idea that Jews were going to fight I found exciting,” says Harold Livingston, one of the pilots, who later became a novelist and screenwriter. ‘Above and Beyond,’ Jewish American Pilots Fighting for Israel 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Of course, making the case about the primacy of daily life depends on the quality of the writing, how well the novelist captures the poetry of the mundane. ‘Among the Ten Thousand Things’: A family torn apart by infidelity 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Season 1 of this handsome-looking fantasy series introduced some of the major characters and concepts from the first book of the novelist Robert Jordan’s hefty “The Wheel of Time” saga. The Best Movies and TV Coming to Amazon, Hulu, Max and More in September 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z

The relationship between novelists and genre has shifted several times, often in ways that seem strange to us today. A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

And like “cyberspace,” which was coined in 1982 by the novelist William Gibson, it went “from science fiction to science fact” with the flowering of the internet. The Word of the Year Goes Goblin Mode 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

Ghosh is mindful of his task as a novelist — to entertain. Review | With ‘Gun Island,’ Amitav Ghosh turns global crises into engaging fiction 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

K J is a laid-back college dropout with a history of mild mental problems, Jasper a would-be novelist fuming over the loss of his girlfriend. Amy Herzog and Others Bring New Voices to Stage 2012-06-07T16:47:59Z

The novelist also jokingly tried to add another line item to her long résumé. New Toni Morrison novel coming in April 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

In the process, he gets tangled up with a young novelist named Toby Oates, whose professional and personal accomplishments closely resemble those of a certain Victorian author we know. Top 10 Non-Dickens Books for Dickens Fans 2012-02-05T20:06:36Z

Now an award-winning — and hugely popular — young-adult novelist, Green tried numerous times over the years to write a book based on his student-chaplain days. 'The Fault in Our Stars' is a tour de force about teenage cancer 2012-01-14T07:25:43Z

The latest incarnation of Wilde’s “Earnest,” directed by Lucy Bailey with interpolations by the whimsical mystery novelist Simon Brett, is also presented as a play about people putting on a play. London Theater Journal: On Artifice and Oxygen, Earnest and Jeeves 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

The modern world is creeping closer to Cranford, bringing with it the iron horse as well as racier items like the waltz and the female novelist. 2010-01-08T04:05:00Z

As a novelist, Ms. Mantel is a master of peripheral vision, of sideways glimpses and doubling-back narratives that make you feel that the past is always tickling the present from behind. Theater Review: Royal Shakespeare Company Adapts 2 Hilary Mantel Novels 2014-01-22T22:33:43Z

He, of course, is an English teacher and aspiring novelist. Treme: season one, episode two 2011-02-25T23:00:00Z

I made my theater flat on paper, because I am a novelist by trade. Hilary Mantel on Taking Her ‘Wolf Hall’ Novels to the Stage 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

I've tended to read Jocelin's folly as part of a profoundly human condition – the search for meaning, the construction of belief, even as exemplar of the novelist's ability to invent and elaborate. Reading group: The Spire's many meanings 2013-04-15T10:34:02Z

Just, a journalist turned novelist, is a master at evoking character and place, weaving it all together in a seamless, economical style. Critics' Picks: 'Tomboy,' traffic tweets, the novel 'Rodin's Debutante' 2012-08-16T16:19:04Z

"Had he known he had cancer, he would never have written about it," Adele Banks said on the Banksophilia website, started by the novelist's friends. Poignant final novel by Iain Banks out 11 days after death 2013-06-20T12:29:05Z

Writing to the philosopher Hannah Arendt, the novelist Mary McCarthy described it memorably. How the Edinburgh writers' conference changed the world of literature 2012-08-11T15:58:34Z

Packer is a novelist whose gifts lie in describing the particular, and you can’t get more particular than gluing photos of your psychologically abandoned children’s faces to miniature TV screens. ‘The Children’s Crusade,’ by Ann Packer 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

Interspersed with the chapters are recipes relating to the plot and characters — a frequent feature of books by this novelist, who likes to unwind in the kitchen. ‘The Apple Orchard’: the bequest of a complicated past 2013-05-22T23:19:20Z

There, eventually, the crime authors were joined by thriller writers and spy novelists, all of whom have had to endure being patronised from a great height by the self-appointed priesthood of the "literary novelist". The class pyramid of British literature 2010-03-22T12:01:00Z

Raymond Mortimer thought she beat all other western novelists in her understanding of modern India. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala obituary 2013-04-03T15:24:01Z

A novelist's work, like a drummer's, is mostly done in the background, without drawing too much attention to itself. The Fun Stuff and Other Essays by James Wood – review 2013-03-01T08:00:01Z

Set mostly on the American frontier of the 1850s and in post-Civil War Tennessee, this tall tale by the Irish novelist is alternately brutal and folksy. A young Irishman falls into the horrors of the American Civil War 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

The inmates in that film Americanize the name of one of France’s most illustrious novelists, Alexandre Dumas, by pronouncing it “dumb-ass.” Paul LePage’s guillotine dream: A warped, bloodthirsty fantasy of justice resurrected for the YouTube age 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Mr. Kunzru, a journalist and novelist who is releasing an original short story next month with Vintage Shorts, said he was intrigued by the notion of selling short stories as standalone works. Short Stories for E-Readers, 99 Cents Each 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

A novelist prescient enough to publish those sentences in 1983 proved himself fully deserving of the call from the Swedish Academy in 2006. The Silent House by Orhan Pamuk – review 2012-10-12T21:55:06Z

A Brooklyn novelist and journalist of hipster repute, Ames based Bored To Death on a short story he wrote about the time he became a private detective himself. The slacker meets the sleuth 2011-03-26T00:02:00Z

The focus of the campaign is a modest Nottinghamshire visitors' centre that celebrates the work of the novelist and commemorates the community described in powerful novels such as Sons and Lovers. Campaign to save DH Lawrence legacy unites arts elite 2010-10-16T23:08:00Z

Estate of 19th-century American novelist Edith Wharton, with house and garden tours, as well as and special events and exhibitions. On a Jeep tour of Stockbridge, Mass., it’s all easy on the eyes. Maybe too easy. 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

“The Black body was Europe’s first unit of energy,” Lokko, a Scottish Ghanaian architect, academic and novelist, said during a tour of the exhibition last week. Radical Rethinking at Biennale: Africa and the Future Share Pride of Place 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

Unlike many comic book writers and graphic novelists you are very vocal and outspoken about your politics. "The Boys" comics artist Darick Robertson on Amazon's adaptation, politics and "The Punisher" 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

A cranky novelist ensconced in a swanky setting, railing at the idiocies of the contemporary world. Review | Laura Lippman’s suspense novel ‘Dream Girl’ takes its cue from Stephen King 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

He was a medical doctor turned novelist and filmmaker whose books sold more than 150 million copies worldwide. 2010-02-05T08:05:00Z

For Bellow as a novelist, that tension between voice and character is the very essence of his art. Saul Bellow, Film Critic 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

At a recent American Booksellers Association meeting, the novelist Junot Díaz sharply criticized the book world, saying that as an immigrant child he despaired over books like “Little House on the Prairie.” Perspective | Yes, ‘Little House on the Prairie’ is racially insensitive — but we should still read it 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Which Irish novelist nominated Patti Smith as his hero in the Guardian Review, and which poet did he cite in making his case? Podcast: Latin America at the checkpoint 2010-11-19T15:59:00Z

Having recreated a world rather than inventing it, the novelist needs licence to see it from an angle that no amount of historical research could provide. Regeneration by Pat Barker 2012-08-24T21:55:08Z

In the early 1880s, novelist George Alfred Townsend wrote, in The Entailed Hat, “My wife will be a shakester in diamonds!” Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z

It could be said that the novelist’s business is much like that of the detective, searching eagerly for clues to provide some explanation of the chaotic and mysterious world we inhabit. Looking at Agatha Christie and Feminism 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

TOWNSEND, Tenn. — On a cool, rainy morning in August, the novelist Richard Powers was in one of his favorite hiding places, a tiny pebble cove along a mountain stream in the Great Smoky Mountains. Richard Powers Speaks For the Trees 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

The Booker Prize-winning novelist wanders Ireland’s capital city, recalling people and places that still live in his memory. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

A careful, talented novelist has already done most of that work for the television writers’ room, which is a key reason that established properties are such welcome commodities right now. “The Walking Dead” and “Game of Thrones”: When is it time to abandon the source? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

Perhaps, if I played my cards right, I could go from novelist to screenwriter, and sneak into the lot at Paramount through a side door. Did I make it? 2012-11-18T17:01:00Z

The late Jim Harrison – one of America’s greatest novelists and poets – acquired an unwanted reputation as a “macho writer.” Toxic masculinity doesn’t just target women: The viciousness and vacuity of modern American manhood is also harmful to the self 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

I used to be the unpublished novelist who drove up from Olympia to watch authors speak at Elliott Bay Books. Readers and writers remember 2013-06-21T20:58:44Z

If a girl likes makeup, “let her wear it,” the acclaimed novelist advised last year. Of course those eyelashes are fake. And they’re spectacular. 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

But the critic, novelist and Harvard English professor Serpell maintains that the face is mere facade. Celebrating Strange Faces, Gorgeous Sentences and Circular Prose 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

A few days before Christmas, a group of 20 or so people crowded into the Mexican novelist Valeria Luiselli’s living room. Valeria Luiselli, At Home in Two Worlds 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

As a novelist, Wolfe self-consciously modeled himself on writers like Émile Zola and William Makepeace Thackeray, who attempted in their fiction to move past their own personal experience and capture wide swaths of society. Tom Wolfe Kept a Close, Comical and Astonished Eye on America 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

Most of this novelist’s 30-odd atmospheric books, set in the murky waters and demimonde of occupied or newly liberated Paris, resemble and build on the others, yet each is completely distinct. Patrick Modiano, an Author of Paris Mysteries, Keeps His Own 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

Witness the tragic tale of Sherwood Anderson, the novelist, who swallowed the toothpick from his martini and died of a perforated colon. Books of The Times: ‘The Book of Gin,’ by Richard Barnett 2012-12-11T21:11:25Z

On the last day Shields saw Vonnegut, the novelist instructed his biographer to look up Kurt Vonnegut in the dictionary. 'And So It Goes': Kurt Vonnegut, disenchanted genius 2011-11-18T23:12:32Z

Moshfegh is the novelist for me right now; there’s such freedom and puckishness in her prose, and grandmaster technical wizardry, too. Times Critics Discuss the Year in Books, From Triumphs to Disappointments 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

In his acknowledgments, Snowden thanks the novelist Joshua Cohen for “helping to transform my rambling reminiscences and capsule manifestoes into a book.” In Edward Snowden’s New Memoir, the Disclosures This Time Are Personal 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z

Ms Doughty said there "are some novelists where you can't help thinking that a bit more writers block might be handy". AUDIO: Is writer's block just 'old nonsense'? 2013-05-14T09:25:33Z

Ms. Shriver, the author of 13 novels, who is best known for her 2003 book, “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” was especially critical of efforts to stop novelists from cultural appropriation. Lionel Shriver’s Address on Cultural Appropriation Roils a Writers Festival 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Once recast as L’Hotel in the 1960s, it became watering hole de choix for glitterati, including the Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau, the French poet, dramatist, screenwriter and novelist. Chasing Balzac: Uncovering the Intimate Belle Epoque Hotels of Paris 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Sabri Gurses, a Turkish poet and novelist, said he was moved when he learned that Mr. Ali was carrying a German translation of Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse, “Eugene Onegin,” when he was killed. A Once-Forgotten Novel Unites Turkish Readers in Troubled Times 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

But at last, is taking a more literary bent as Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland collaborates on a limited collection of clothing and accessories. Generation X author moves from fiction to fashion 2010-07-14T13:39:00Z

They correctly pointed out that, having appropriated the name of a real person, he had, as novelists do, invented almost everything else. The House of Rajani by Alon Hilu 2010-04-10T14:10:00Z

“Cece is an amazing graphic novelist,” he said of his wife. ‘Origami Yoda’ book series ends with a trip to the D.C. museums

“He’s a novelist through and through,” Rick Gekoski, chairman of the judging panel, said in an interview from Sydney, Australia, where the decision was announced at the Sydney Writers’ Festival. ArtsBeat: Philip Roth Wins Man Booker International Prize in Disputed Decision 2011-05-18T13:47:43Z

The two novelists are not unique among transgender writers in their magpie approach to literary tropes and genres. The Coming of Age of Transgender Literature 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Chris Cleave, an author and journalist, called on fellow writers to "raise up the next generation of novelists". Eimear McBride named best new author 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Reviewing the book in The New York Times Book Review, the novelist Jay Cantor called it “a brilliant image of a national psychosis.” 2010-02-06T07:20:00Z

I saw “Matilda” with a friend who’s a novelist, and when we entered the theater, she looked at the stage and sighed, “This is every writer’s dream.” | 'Matilda': ?Matilda,? by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London 2012-01-31T11:00:00Z

In a review for The New York Times, the novelist Paule Marshall declared it “a most important novel” for its nuanced depiction of African American life. It’s Not Too Late to Discover Louise Meriwether 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

This is a well-deserved honour for easily the most prolific, most popular and most widely respected serious novelist in China. My hero: Mo Yan 2012-10-12T21:55:20Z

Eggers, who wrote the screenplay with the Icelandic novelist and playwright Sjon, has conjured this bloody saga out of the ancient Scandinavian narratives that supplied Shakespeare’s source material. ‘The Northman’ Review: Danish Premodern 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Knowing that the words Mr. Rogers is referring to are Wallace’s it’s hard to avoid recalling what the novelist said about the whole point of books: to combat loneliness. Daniel Fish?s Take on David Foster Wallace 2012-03-17T05:14:54Z

Even when he is orbiting somewhere in a galaxy too far away for normal human comprehension, the genre-subverting English novelist China Miéville is dazzling. Review: China Miéville’s ‘Three Moments of an Explosion’ 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

Cervantes is not the only novelist who can call our attention to the book in our hands and still make it live for us, but he is the best of them. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z

A novelist and critic with a sharp eye for Hollywood blends memoir and cultural critique in this study of classic American failure narratives. New & Noteworthy, From El Chapo to a Holocaust Survivor’s Art 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

Elisabetta, who cares for her alcoholic father and works as a waitress, dreams of becoming a novelist. Review | Lisa Scottoline’s latest novel, ‘Eternal,’ is not a thriller but is thrilling nonetheless 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

Mo is prolific and popular, arguably China’s most prominent contemporary novelist. Chinese Novelist Mo Yan Receives Nobel Prize. But Is He Politically Correct? 2012-10-11T14:50:27Z

He signed up novelist and pulp aficionado Michael Chabon to rewrite the screenplay, perhaps to lend the project some geek authenticity. “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z

She hasn’t forgotten her friend Jacob calling her a romancière, the patronizing feminine form of the French noun for novelist. Review | A woman reconstructs her past with the help of an old journal in ‘Memories of the Future’ 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

Washington novelist Dolen Perkins-Valdez, a mother of two who teaches creative writing, says she was addicted to an energy drink until she got pregnant with her daughter. Hello, my name is Tired, and I’m addicted to energy drinks 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

The reviews tended to be harsh, with novelist Salman Rushdie pronouncing it “humorless, devoid of character, entirely free of anything resembling a credible spoken word, and mind-numbingly full of gobbledygook of all sorts.” Umberto Eco, best-selling author of ‘The Name of the Rose,’ dies at 84 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

In a 2004 Slate article, for example, novelist Jane Smiley wrote that “ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.” Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

The tweet prompted novelist Joyce Carol Oates to respond, "This, from the master of horror." Stephen King says he's scared of Ted Cruz 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Mr. Epstein, notoriously difficult to work with in his later years, rejected every script that Mr. Brodax presented to him, including one by the novelist Joseph Heller, objecting to the colored binders they came in. Al Brodax, Who Steered the Beatles’ ‘Yellow Submarine’ to the Screen, Dies at 90 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Stanley Baldwin gave novelist Mary Webb the first recorded prime ministerial endorsement. Christmas reading for the rich and famous: what do you recommend? 2012-12-21T15:09:13Z

It’s good news when a debut novelist delivers the goods, and I’m happy to report that is the case with Fiona Barton and her first novel, “The Widow.” ‘The Widow’ review: Can she find love in a killer marriage? 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

In fact, he is himself principally a novelist, though one who has also published a study of Walt Whitman and a biography of legendary mountain climber Willi Unsoeld. ‘Nabokov in America’ looks at how U.S. shaped novelist 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

In 1904, the Japanese military authorities arrested the American novelist Jack London. Think of Kimchi as a Verb 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

His brother, a novelist, has recently stolen his girlfriend. Daniel Galera’s ‘Blood-Drenched Beard’ 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Billed as "Brief Encounter for the 21st century", the new year drama is written by One Day novelist David Nicholls. VIDEO: Morrissey on commuter love role 2014-01-05T10:57:05Z

In British novelist Chris Cleave's new novel, "Gold," the cloistered world of Olympic-level cycling in England forms the backdrop for a gripping story about what happens when winning is no longer everything. 'Gold': loneliness at the top for an Olympic cyclist 2012-07-11T20:07:06Z

In “The Last Corrido,” a young novelist takes on a magazine assignment touring with a Mexican band in Spain, pondering illness, mortality and his uncertain destiny along the way. ‘A Storm Waiting to Happen’: A Colombian Writer Watches His Home From Afar 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

Her careers as novelist, campaigning journalist and poet were crammed into a short life beset with personal difficulties, including poor physical and mental health. Poem of the week: Ku Li by Robin Hyde 2011-02-28T12:55:00Z

Mr. Child, who worked as a television director and producer in England before becoming a novelist, also knows his way around show business. Tom Cruise as Lee Child’s Fictional Hero in ‘Jack Reacher’ 2012-12-07T13:00:00Z

In another fine piece the award-winning novelist Alexander Masters learns how people become “unhoused” by talking with the homeless at the Matthew 25 Mission. Review | ‘Lives of Houses’ is a lovely book to savor while you’re stuck at home 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

The new crop of satires about race also reflects an ongoing debate about cultural appropriation and the conflicts over whether and how novelists should write across racial and cultural boundaries. A Crop of New Novels About Race and Racism Finds Freedom in Satire 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z

She wanted to become a famous artist, I a famous novelist – but Terri had then sold next to nothing and I'd not published more than my phone number. Lionel Shriver: How I failed my best friend 2010-03-20T00:11:00Z

Kirshner, an expert in bankruptcy law, applies a scholar’s deep understanding and a novelist’s eye for detail to the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history, Detroit in the 2010s. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Debut novelist Rum was born, like her protagonist Deya, in Brooklyn to Palestinian immigrants. The 10 books to read in March 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

"It's almost impossible to imagine," says Orwell's biographer, the novelist and critic DJ Taylor. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z

His restless mind has led him into becoming a stand-up giant, a movie star, a screenwriter, a producer, a novelist, a songwriter, a banjoist, an art curator — and, increasingly these days, a playwright. What follows 'Bright Star'? For Steve Martin, it's 'Meteor Shower' 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

In her timely book Payback, about financial transactions and the imagination, the novelist Margaret Atwood argues that "debt is the new fat". Microloans in Hackney | Feature 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z

A year or so after her return to New York she found her way to a private creative writing class taught by Jackson Taylor, a novelist. Buzz Over Ayana Mathis’s ‘Twelve Tribes of Hattie’ 2012-12-10T22:42:33Z

Writing in the Guardian, crime novelist Val McDermid said the novels were the "perfect antidote to being alone and far from home". Tributes paid to author Pratchett 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

This subtle crossing of partitions, physical and mental, this delicate art of sympathetic spying, is vital to any novelist’s work. The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

But a close reading suggests that it is a return to his early themes, and a tribute to the poet he was before making his mark as a novelist. Ha Jin’s Self-Revealing Study of The Chinese Poet Li Bai 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Those events were a low point for the prize, which dates to 1901 and has been awarded to some of the world’s most influential and revered novelists, poets and playwrights. Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

The guest who broke in her stoop as an interview area was Susi Rajah, a novelist friend who lives down the street. UpClose: Welcome, I?ve Cleaned a Step for You 2010-10-06T18:03:00Z

Convinced that “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” had misrepresented the South, Dixon emerged as Jim Crow’s novelist laureate. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Produced with the help of the National Theatre of , it will star, aside from Gray, friends and champions such as novelists Will Self, Ian Rankin, AL Kennedy and Louise Welsh. Alasdair Gray honoured by Edinburgh book festival on Lanark anniversary 2011-08-14T17:58:03Z

The novelist and feminist Sarah Dunant believes she witnessed "a false dawn" of hope in the early 1990s. It's a man's world… but why is sexism ingrained in the arts? 2013-03-24T00:06:27Z

“A few days ago I was walking in Jerusalem, and in one alley . . . I sensed, there was, the smell of wet fabrics after an ironing,” the Israeli novelist Amos Oz once said in an interview. Amos Oz and the Politics of the Hebrew Language 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Then all of a sudden, I'm a novelist. Seth Greenland navigates writing maze of novels, radio, stage and TV 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sarris played a major role in introducing Americans to European auteur theory, the idea that a great director speaks through his films no less than a master novelist speaks through his books. Andrew Sarris, Film Critic, Dies at 83 2012-06-20T17:00:26Z

The Spanish novelist Javier Marías arrived at the Frick, one morning last month, looking shaken. The Worldly Digressions of Javier Marías 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

These three romance novelists build complex worlds that ensure love is hard won — and incredibly gratifying. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels for February 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

What is the connection between the novelist Thackeray’s 1853 drawing of a black girl in South Carolina and plantings meant to echo the famed Chinese gardens of Suzhou? Exhibition Review: ‘The Library Re-Imagined,’ at the Huntington 2013-12-20T22:18:50Z

Twenty years ago, in a review, I called Richard Powers “America’s greatest living novelist.” In Fiction, Martin Amis Summons His Literary Friends and Role Models 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

Amos Oz, one of Israel’s most prominent novelists, said on Army Radio that Appelfed shied away from graphic depictions of the Holocaust, choosing instead to describe its effect on the lives of his characters. Aharon Appelfeld, acclaimed Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor, d 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

So people were sort of primed to receive a book by a great young novelist who’d done an amazing thing. The genius of “Infinite Jest”: How David Foster Wallace’s masterpiece saved the “big” novel — and why it’s not “a thousand-page suicide note” 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Andrey Kurkov, a novelist and the president of PEN Ukraine, assailed Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine’s territory, culture and history, which he described as an assault on the whole world. We, the Writers? A Global Literary Congress Meets in New York. 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Felix Clay for the Guardian It was the winter of 2001, and the popular novelist was facing a deluge of hate mail. Barbara Kingsolver: from witch hunt to winner 2010-06-10T17:36:00Z

Weinstein’s team had already used up all their opportunities to veto jurors, so they asked Burke to dismiss the novelist, which the judge declined to do. Harvey Weinstein appeals sexual assault conviction with focus on juror who penned novel 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

Contrast this to Batman, the superhero that novelist Austin Grossman called, “the costumed patron of the walking wounded, of simply Not Getting Over It.” Was my grandfather Batman? 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

This has been the challenge for a certain set of novelists since the deconstructionists' ideas made their way to America. Don Delillo's deep freeze: 'Zero K' takes on death, futurists and cryonics 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Beside my chair were collections of letters and memoirs written by intrepid female journalists, intellectuals and novelists, all British or European. A Nile Journey Guided by 19th-Century Women 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

As you may know, it’s not easy to be a gentleman and a novelist. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

Yet few novelists of recent memory have put our bleak isolation into words as clearly as Liz Moore does in her new novel, "Heft." 'Heft': longing to shatter the shell of loneliness 2012-02-08T22:16:07Z

My own anxiety is less about the cerebrum than about the soul, and is best summed up not by a neuroscientist but by a novelist. First: The Twitter Trap 2011-05-18T20:53:46Z

The work of novelist Hilary Mantel is “bleakly comic; her dominant subject the oppression of the weak by the strong, the claustrophobia with which circumstance can close around a person.” Review | Olivia Laing’s ‘Funny Weather’ ponders the role of art during times of crisis 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

British novelist Colin Wilson, best known as the author of The Outsider, has died aged 82. The Outsider author Colin Wilson dies 2013-12-13T13:05:09Z

The novelist's primary responsibility is to create meaning, and if you could somehow leave this job to your characters you would necessarily be avoiding it yourself. Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom 2012-05-25T21:55:12Z

The novelist Russell Banks, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called it “an extraordinarily intelligent, powerful and, I believe, permanent contribution to the literature of family, childhood and memory.” William McPherson, Book Critic and Novelist, Dies at 84 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

The bleak, mythic vistas of the dramatist Sam Shepard and the novelist Cormac McCarthy come to mind, as well as films by Peckinpah and Ford. Review: Lost and Found in a Steve Earle Soundscape in ‘Samara’ 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

He worked internationally as a journalist before finding success as a novelist, and settled in Mexico, where he lived for many years. Gabriel García Márquez's collection of signed books — from Clinton, Castro — goes to the Ransom Center in Texas 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Given how often this happens to failed novelists, it feels like a fairy-godmother moment, lacking a certain verisimilitude. Passion and fame in the digital age: Watching 'Sex With Strangers' at the Geffen 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

About 10 years ago, in the wake of 9/11, the novelist Tom Perrotta imagined an apocalypse that is strangely close to what the president is proposing. Perspective | Tom Perrotta’s ‘The Leftovers’ imagined 2 percent of the population disappearing. That could be our reality. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

The limitlessness is paradoxical in a novelist whose non-SF novels always have a strong sense of locality. Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks 2012-07-27T21:50:00Z

The late Thomas Berger, who died last week at the age of eighty-nine, is a classic case: an important novelist easily overlooked in the present day. Thomas Berger’s Egoless Fictions 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

In his essay “The Storyteller,” Walter Benjamin wrote that the novelist “invites the reader to a divinatory realization of the meaning of life by writing ‘Finis.’” The End of Endings 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

The problem for novelists, he wrote, is that they will cull from television rather than life for their art. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z

Authors of crime fiction, children's novelists, short story, poetry or prose writers are all encouraged to apply. Last call for 2013's new writing talent in the north 2013-01-25T07:00:00Z

While you’re at it, the novelist wondered, might Melissa McCarthy play Frances, the insecure mess of a has-been author? Liane Moriarty writes women’s fiction. Have a problem with that? She doesn’t. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

There are other forces sustaining Mr. White: his wife, the graphic novelist Mimi Pond, and their children; his banjo and harmonica; and his connections to the South. Movie Review: ‘Beauty Is Embarrassing,’ Directed by Neil Berkeley 2012-09-06T23:20:20Z

And have this year’s novelists have all gotten a memo from their editors to include a scene of police brutality or racism? In ‘Cyclorama,’ Former Classmates Confront an Extra Problematic Drama Teacher 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

Reading “Child of Light,” a revealing new biography of Stone by the novelist Madison Smartt Bell, Stone’s distrust begins to make sense. The Life of Robert Stone, Who Captured American Energies in Intense, Foreboding Novels 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

In 1961, Matthiessen emerged as a major novelist with "At Play in the Fields of the Lord," his tale of missionaries under siege from both natives and mercenaries in the jungles of Brazil. Writer-environmentalist Peter Matthiessen dies 2014-04-06T01:17:22Z

He sometimes referred to Faulkner as Uncle Billy because the novelist delivered so much honest information. Review: Albert Murray’s Symphonic Elegance Sings in a New Anthology 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

He's often compared stylistically to Flaubert, the greatest French novelist of the 19th century, and the comparison is fully merited. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

McCarthy likes to feed his characters, and the food in his fiction resonates more than it does in most novelists’ work. Cormac McCarthy Loves a Good Diner 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

But I think some of the qualities useful for a novelist would be very useful for a commander. Phil Klay on His Iraq War Book 'Redeployment' 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

In the age of mega-institutions and competitive building, the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk pays homage to the more personal places, like his own Museum of Innocence, whose character and content evoke a deeper experience. T Magazine: Small Museums 2014-03-20T22:06:31Z

Some of Britain's best novelists look back on the New Labour years in the Observer's New Review this Sunday. Video: The Observer Conversation: Has pop culture affected politics? 2010-04-01T16:37:00Z

I think there are lots of religious novelists who don’t write novels that are inflected with religion. Marilynne Robinson talks religion, fear and the American spirit: “The left, at a basic level, lost courage, because they don’t know how to deal with the proclaimed religiosity of the other side” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

But it was Goldman, in the crowning achievement of his long, successful career as a novelist and screenwriter, who used his screenplay to forge the modern myth of the reporter as hero. William Goldman Turned Reporters into Heroes in “All the President’s Men” 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

But Walker also channels an even older novelist who saw the carnage of war. Review | Nico Walker is a convicted bank robber. ‘Cherry’ proves he’s also a must-read author. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

In the opening pages, a midlist novelist named Arthur Less is clinging to 49 like it’s the lip of a volcano. Do we really need another novel about a novelist? Yes — this one is delightful. 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

Not only does the paucity of fact open up spaces in which the novelist can operate with greater freedom, but Morgan has turned our lack of knowledge into a quality of unknowableness in his protagonist. The Secret Life of William Shakespeare by Jude Morgan - review 2012-11-13T16:55:01Z

I was recently asked by BBC2's The Culture Show to chair a panel of five judges in an effort to identify promising debut novelists. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z

The novelist and essayist Carlos Fuentes died on 15 May in a hospital in Mexico City at the age of 83. VIDEO: Mexico mourns Carlos Fuentes 2012-05-16T18:36:06Z

Photograph: Garry Weaser/Picture library Oxford in its warm valley, is worldly and social, throwing out politicians, modern novelists and other hideous affronts. Stephen Fry recalls his student days for West End play: From the archive, 2 April 1988 2013-04-02T06:00:00Z

An essay or work of polemic finds it hard to describe the texture of such fluctuation, whereas the novelist understands that to tell a story is to novelise an idea, to dramatise it. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z

For the mystery novelist, none of it mattered. Mickey Spillane’s Work Keeps Coming, 12 Years After His Death 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

Towards the end, Rosini's sister surveys the manuscript of struggling novelist and secondary character Corrado, and comments, "No, there's no novel here." The Story of My Purity by Francesco Pacifico – review 2013-04-24T10:00:01Z

The selections — not all are strictly nonfiction — cover early dispatches written for various outlets in his 20s to the columns he wrote for El País when he was a successful novelist. The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

As a host of public radio’s Studio 360, a best-selling novelist and a cultural omnivore, Andersen has been tracking and storing the data on the nation’s unraveling for decades. Fake News: It’s as American as George Washington’s Cherry Tree 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Some were seen in annual corporate reports, and one was the model for an etching on a Swedish postage stamp honoring the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison. Helen Marcus, Prolific Photographer of the Famous, Dies at 97 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z

Q: In a talk some years ago titled "Confessions of a Serial Novelist," you said that serial novelists like yourself "just keep writing, and then they die." Alexander McCall Smith published his first hit novel at 50 and hasn’t stopped. How does he do it? 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

In the present tense, we follow the beloved teacher and novelist Juan Diego Guerrero as he travels from Iowa to the Philippines to fulfill a promise made years ago to a young draft dodger. John Irving’s ‘Avenue of Mysteries’: One writer’s beginnings 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

She worked with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was a friend to Malcolm X during his African sojourn, acted alongside Broadway thespians like James Earl Jones and was a confidant to novelist James Baldwin. Maya Angelou, a daughter of the South, a voice for us all 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

One stash of correspondence was unearthed at the New York Public Library, filed under the American novelist also named Winston Churchill. Martin Gilbert, preeminent Churchill biographer and Holocaust historian, dies at 78 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

I guess Jerome K Jerome might be the region's most famous novelist. Anthony Cartwright: 'The title is intended to provoke a reaction' 2012-08-04T23:05:22Z

Their son, Nicholas, became a successful novelist, too, writing under the name Nick Harkaway. John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z

Male novelists of the workplace depict female characters, of course. The Office Politics of Workplace Fiction by Women 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

You can practically see Baldwin raising his hand like the smart kid in the back of a second-grade classroom: the novelist! Bad news sells in the 'The Last Kid Left' 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

As a historian and a novelist, neither of us is especially adept at the confessional mode; it’s possible that we take pains to avoid it. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

The novelist creates a world and the reader brings something to it. Top novelists look to ebooks to challenge the rules of fiction 2013-03-10T00:06:11Z

This vision of the unconscious also describes a certain type of novelist—one who deploys elision and enigma in his storytelling to provoke and challenge readers. Cormac McCarthy Explains the Unconscious 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

ARDENT, even obsessive, fans of the novelist David Foster Wallace almost rival their idol in the torrents of words they use to detail their devotion. Daniel Fish?s Take on David Foster Wallace 2012-03-17T05:14:54Z

Instead, they chose to split the prize between The Doves' Necklace, by Saudi novelist Raja Alem, and The Arch and the Butterfly, by Moroccan politician, journalist and author Achaari. 'Arabic Booker' can't escape controversy 2011-03-15T12:42:40Z

Born in France to Yves Coffin, a French diplomat, and his mother, Nh Dini, an Indonesian novelist, Pierre’s childhood was spent travelling back and forth across Asia. Pierre Coffin: Me and my Minions 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

A second marriage, to the British Claire Bloom, starts out dazzlingly — the pairing of two acclaimed artists, actor and novelist, with Roth writing teleplays explicitly to serve Bloom’s talents. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

I think those things laid the foundation for me becoming a romance novelist. All you need is love: experts on the changing face of modern romance 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z

Goodwin should surely be applauded rather than lambasted for raising this issue, one that is deeply important for novelists of either gender and for publishing as a whole. Orange Prize: Women authors can lighten up?and still be taken seriously 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z

In late March, novelist Rebecca Makkai’s husband burned his hand while cooking and the couple made the decision not to seek immediate medical help even though he was in pain. Perspective | ‘This is not the time for a broken arm’: How the pandemic is affecting parents’ perception of risk 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

The difference is that novelists are interested in narratives that mirror life, narratives that express conflicting empathies, that express the contradictions of what it means to be human, that express emotions, psychology. Libyan revolution has made democracy real and tangible idea, says novelist 2011-08-26T19:11:21Z

But overcoming that kind of thing is all part of the job for a novelist, he said. Child mistreatment fuels novel of isolated teen 2011-10-19T14:21:41Z

Unfortunately, while Hobbs might be thinking like a novelist in these critical first two sections of his book, he doesn't always write like one. 'The Short and Tragic Life' explores class, race amid struggle and wonder 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

The novelist William Burroughs once complained about autobiographers who conceal their lives in print, quipping that the Paul Bowles memoir “Without Stopping” would have been better titled “Without Telling.” Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

And it says much for Hill the novelist that the challenge of the list and the skilful literacy of the surrounding essays linger persuasively for what they tell us about the quality of good writing. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z

Puppetry also is a metaphor for the way novelists operate. ‘I Am Radar,’ by Reif Larsen 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Gellhorn is now best known for her incisive journalism but she was also a wonderful novelist. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z

For three years, participants — including musicians, novelists and circus performers — would be paid 16,900 euros a year, about $18,200, no strings attached. Ireland Asks: What if Artists Could Ditch Their Day Jobs? 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

Maybe Ellis is one of very few novelists who can truly surrender to the gaze of his creations – however distorted their view might be. Psycho, genius ... fraud? 2010-07-26T07:00:00Z

But as a novelist who writes fiction set in contemporary America, I can’t put my head in the ground. Novelist Dubus now looks homeward after gritty memoir 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Cusack is Lenù Greco, the bookish one who studies hard and escapes from their old, squalid Neapolitan neighborhood to become a celebrated novelist. Reimagining Old Friends at the National Theater in London 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

“Night Heron” already places him near the first rank of today’s spy novelists. Adam Brookes’s ‘Night Heron’ is a top-notch thriller about stolen secrets

In Egypt, in the decade of slow, simmering discontent before the revolution, novelists produced texts of critique, of dystopia, of nightmare. Ahdaf Soueif: In times of crisis, fiction has to take a back seat 2012-08-17T15:00:01Z

Silva succeeds in making Wollstonecraft — the critic, novelist, translator, trailblazing feminist and the mother of Mary Shelley, the author of “Frankenstein” — a vibrant and forceful personality, full of both love and fury. Review | It can’t match ‘Wolf Hall,’ but ‘Love and Fury’ captures an English figure with bravura 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

She brought the clout and cachet of a best-selling novelist and successful Broadway playwright to the nascent movie industry, adapting her own work and those of her peers to the new medium. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

America's greatest 20th century novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald, was a master of lists. Robert McCrum: The seductive power of lists 2011-03-15T16:41:59Z

“I’m in craft mode,” said Rachel Yoder, a novelist in Iowa. Smash a Coronavirus Piñata. You’ll Feel Better. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

I’m not sure how it is for most novelists, but when I create characters, their faces always look a little blurry to me. Joan Castleman, Meet Glenn Close. What Happens When a Book’s Character Comes to Life. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, Miller is keen on the great Russian novelists. Miller's tale 2011-08-05T00:33:09Z

But her protagonist is a novelist, and so is Sarah Payne, and that was a departure for their author, too. The Author Elizabeth Strout on ‘Lucy Barton’ and How Her Characters Come Into Being 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Lefcourt, a TV writer and producer as well as a playwright and novelist, has a sharp but affectionate eye for human weakness. The young and the self-involved: 'Cafe Society,' an L.A. story at the Odyssey 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Nancy Huston, a Canadian-born novelist here, put it another way: “The world has changed.” Abroad: In Age of Globalism, Pardon My French 2010-04-21T22:03:00Z

The novelist Wilkie Collins is also seen here as a collaborator with Dickens on the play “The Frozen Deep,” which Queen Victoria invited Dickens and his family troupe to perform at Buckingham Palace. Exhibition Review: Morgan Library?s ?Charles Dickens at 200? - Review 2011-09-22T21:48:27Z

Tucked into this landscape are hidden canyons, plunging declivities formed by water and wind, spots the novelist Denis Johnson once referred to as the “secrets of the horizons,” and today I am heading for one. T Magazine: Dream Weaver 2012-05-14T14:00:44Z

Broderick, a novelist whose work was also banned in Ireland for sexual content, is 20 years dead, and whatever resided in his own knickers is long since turned to dust. Country Girl by Edna O'Brien – review 2012-10-12T21:55:03Z

Mr. Godard credited his parents with instilling in him a love for literature, and he initially wanted to be a novelist. Jean-Luc Godard, Daring Director Who Shaped the French New Wave, Dies at 91 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

Might the transformation of a good girl who hid behind the name of a 19th-century novelist to “Lucy Howard, senior writer,” have happened without a lawsuit concocted in a ladies’ bathroom? How a fed-up group of ‘Good Girls’ beat the ‘Mad Men’-era sexists 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

Iglesias, a Puerto Rican novelist, found himself without a salary or health insurance. Gabino Iglesias, a Writer of Noir, Explores the Texas Underworld 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

It currently focuses on his works, but he said he hopes it will be expanded to include those of other novelists “so it becomes a wide-ranging and fluid research space.” Library devoted to Japan novelist Murakami to open in Tokyo 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Their father was a book publisher, then an agent who landed novelist Arundhati Roy by flying to India and knocking on her door after reading the manuscript of “The God of Small Things.” Shakespeare Theatre Company names U.K.’s Simon Godwin to succeed Kahn 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

In the spring of 2018, the novelist Andrew Sean Greer was working as the director of a writers residency in Tuscany, where his unofficial duties included cleaning up after an incontinent pug. His Pulitzer-Winning Comedy Broke the Rules. He’s at It Again. 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

Digital innovations loomed large, including an interactive story-tellling project from the novelist Naomi Alderman, and an a range of new apps designed to whisk cookery writers such as Nigella Lawson into the future. Podcast: Damon Galgut, Helen Simpson, the London Book Fair and the Orange prize 2010-04-30T11:36:00Z

He is at work on a biography of the novelist E.L. Tony Bennett, Champion of the Great American Songbook, Is Dead at 96 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z

The novelist Jim Harrison offers a remark about grilling that is unprintable here. Books of The Times: The Manly Art of Cooking Has Its Bards 2011-05-31T23:55:18Z

The polymath Raymond Tallis … doctor, gerontologist, philosopher, literary critic and novelist. In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections by Raymond Tallis – review 2012-07-06T21:55:07Z

No wonder that when we talk about today’s leading novelists — the ones who generate heat and conversation and are read by both men and women — we are talking mostly about men. Essay: ‘The Second Shelf’ 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

The same reader observed that reading about violence could be "enjoyable", and the novelist agreed. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

But there is also a long tradition of crime writing being viewed as these novelists' guilty pleasure. Jamal Mahjoub: 'My wife says Parker Bilal is much nicer' 2013-03-17T19:00:08Z

But I think he puts his finger on it in describing Mockingbird, as the novelist Flannery O'Connor did, as "a children's book" – a story of good and evil, without greys or nuance or character development. To Kill a Mockingbird isn't a great book but it made America a better place 2010-07-13T17:04:00Z

His “pages were as fluid as camerawork, as efficient and composed as theater,” the novelist and comic-book writer Warren Ellis said in an interview. Steve Dillon, Comic Artist Who Helped Create ‘Preacher,’ Dies at 54 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Perry is announcing that he’s telling a story about Philip, who, in turn, is living that story like a character — a “novelist.” ‘Listen Up Philip,’ With Jason Schwartzman 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Meg Rosoff, the novelist, also a "curator" of TSTL, speaks for everyone when she describes the high: "It is like a parachute jump." Anyone got a good story ? and the nerve to tell it? 2011-01-02T00:02:03Z

"You're interested in labour spies," he said, "so why don't you take a look at this novelist guy who spied for the UK and USA at the time of the Russian Revolution?" The top 10 classic spy novels 2013-06-26T10:37:16Z

King’s aspiring novelist admits, “I knew I was going to write a lot of stupid things that made me cry before I wrote anything good.” Review | Lily King’s ‘Five Tuesdays in Winter’ is as beautiful and tender as ‘Writers & Lovers’ 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

History has provided Follett with some spectacular dramatic moments, and he takes full advantage, recreating them with a historian’s eye for detail and a novelist’s gift for narrative suspense. Review | Ken Follett returns once again to Kingsbridge in ‘A Column of Fire’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

Illustration: Matt Blease Dear Paul, I have been thinking about how so many novelists have been cashing in by writing letters to one another which are then later published in book form. Here and Now: Letters by Paul Auster & JM Coetzee – digested read 2013-05-26T13:00:02Z

Scalzi, a Los Angeles Times critic at large, is a Hugo Award-winning novelist. Double bubble trouble: John Scalzi on living in two Americas 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

“Animals,” in contrast, is being dangled for sale by agents at ICM Partners, alongside films like “People, Places, Things,” a potential crowd-pleaser about a newly single graphic novelist with twin daughters. Television Becomes a Force at Sundance Film Festival 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

The novel is about Paul, a media-savvy young novelist in Brooklyn who superficially resembles Mr. Lin. Books of The Times: ‘Taipei,’ by Tao Lin 2013-06-04T12:00:01Z

The novelist has hired her husband Niall Leonard, who has previously written for TV shows including Ballykissangel, Wire in the Blood and Monarch of the Glen, to oversee the new screenplay. Fifty Shades of Grey screenwriter says film is 'too painful' to watch 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

Jonathan Lethem is among the most gifted novelists alive, and it has killed me to have to review his last two novels, including this year’s “The Feral Detective,” without enthusiasm. Times Critics Discuss the Year in Books, From Triumphs to Disappointments 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Ask about: His friendship with novelist Anne Rice or his interior design masterpiece: The restoration of The Prentiss Club, a 1903 former gentlemen’s club located downtown. The Personalities of Natchez 2010-04-07T20:54:00Z

He was the country’s leading novelist, designer, philosopher and Ping-Pong trainer. 3 Books on North Korea and the Threat of Nuclear War 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

Ives, a poet as well as a novelist, is at her best when dramatizing Harry’s development as a poet, not Clare’s as a fiction writer. Review | Poking fun at the male ego — and academia — in one cheeky little novel 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

One of Edith Wharton's characters, a novelist, declares that "a keen sense of copyright is my nearest approach to an emotion". Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier – review 2013-02-27T07:59:01Z

Eliot, Byatt and Smith are connected by their careers as both novelists and critics. Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z

If only the rest was as crisp, the British novelist Jeanette Winterson recalled thinking, as she began to reckon with that first book for a new theatrical project on the King James Bible. Bush Theater Celebrates King James Bible With ?Sixty-Six Books? 2011-10-23T22:44:26Z

But unlike that book — a novel about the dishonesty of novelists in the face of war — “Quartet for the End of Time” entertains none of the usual comforts of war fiction. Review: ‘Quartet for the End of Time,’ by Johanna Skibsrud 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

He praised the “brilliantly done” television adaptation of his fellow Irish novelist Sally Rooney’s “Normal People,” about the troubled, passionate relationship of a man and woman through high school and college. 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

It sold well and elevated Reid’s profile as a novelist, but she still felt she wasn’t breaking through as she knew she could. Her Books Show the Lifestyles of the Fictional and Famous. She’s Poised for Some Fame of Her Own. 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

Tudor or not Tudor, that is forever the question for historical novelists. Fictional Glimpses of the Past: From the Tudors to the Czars 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

The Staircase covers the trial of the novelist Michael Peterson for the murder of his wife, Kathleen, who was found dead at the bottom of the staircase in their North Carolina home in 2001. As Making a Murderer returns, is the obsession with true crime turning nasty? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

His death, at his home in the borough of Richmond upon Thames, was confirmed by his wife, the novelist Lee Langley. Theo Richmond, Who Revived the Past in a Polish Shtetl, Dies at 93 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

Which brings us to the other designated special province of the literary novelist: museum-quality depth. How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z

In a wide-ranging series of musing, memoiristic essays, the Guadeloupean novelist writes about the links between her culinary and literary passions. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

It’s a delicious mystery, a veil wrapped around both novelists. Review | In Domenico Starnone’s ‘Trust,’ infidelity takes an unlikely form 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

J. P. Donleavy is, arguably, the funniest living American novelist, but the circumstances of his life and work require a person making that argument to qualify and amplify and clarify certain facts. T Magazine: J.P. Donleavy is Still Standing 2014-03-07T20:19:12Z

A bit ironic then, if understandable, that the Irish novelist Sally Rooney is chafing at her fame. Sally Rooney and Love in the Time of General Systems Collapse 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

When he died of a heart attack last year at age 62, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos had been at work for more than a decade on an epic and potentially career-defining novel. An epic, posthumous novel from Oscar Hijuelos to be published 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Throughout her career, the style-shifting novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia has demonstrated a remarkable ability to employ the tropes of genre fiction while simultaneously subverting and decolonizing them. Review | Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s ‘Velvet Was the Night’ is a noir-thriller as captivating as its title 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z

Based on a short story by Sudanese novelist Hammour Ziyada, critics say it demonstrates that the country’s cultural scene is reawakening after decades of oppression. A Sudan in transition presents first-ever film for Oscars 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z

Here we see a novelist who embraced his passions — his lusts, his angers, his resentments, his envies and his jealousies — who, indeed, was largely driven by them. Review | ‘Burning Man’ presents D.H. Lawrence in all his flawed brilliance 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

"I don't feel strongly enough to undergo surgery or anything, but, for me, being able to write in the voice of the other gender is first base for a novelist." A life in writing: Jonathan Coe 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

This year's finalists included attacks on two of Britain's most eminent novelists, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie. Review of 'blah' memoir wins Hatchet Job prize 2013-02-12T20:01:11Z

By putting himself imaginatively inside the consciousness of a historical individual the novelist can contribute to the understanding of biographical "facts". David Lodge on HG Wells 2011-03-11T10:00:01Z

It’s that kind of empathy, perhaps, that made me a novelist. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z

A novelist without a publisher is like a singer without a microphone – mouth going, arms waving, nothing coming out – frankly, an embarrassment to herself and everyone else. Novelists need publishers 2011-08-26T21:55:07Z

Thomas Hardy was born the son of a mason and builder in 1840, was apprenticed to an ecclesiastical architect at 16, and at 30 launched his career as a novelist. ‘Winter’: a passionate reimagining of Thomas Hardy’s troubled love life 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Americans are more likely to be familiar with Mr. Semprún as a screenwriter than as a novelist. Jorge Sempr?n, Author Who Blurred Line Between Novel and Memoir, Is Dead at 87 2011-06-10T20:37:18Z

The fact that American novelists can’t get over this particular theme, Fiedler argues, betrays their own refusal to grow up. Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Anthony would “be aware that this was an author he needed to read” like Dostoevsky, and then read the novelist because the kind of person he wanted to be would have read him. My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z

Mr. Ferris, a novelist who made the current list, submitted a short story in April that he began writing in February. The New Yorker Picks Young Writers Worth Watching 2010-06-02T21:52:00Z

Before writing “The Sportswriter,” you had worked as a sportswriter yourself—and, like Frank, you were also a novelist. Living with Frank Bascombe: An Interview with Richard Ford 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

Brown doesn't blend facts into his books like other novelists, though, who use solid science or history as a foundation to build creative, even impossible stories. Dan Brown still can't write, but he deserves some respect 2013-05-16T11:45:00Z

After graduating from University College Dublin, Binchy worked as a teacher before becoming a journalist at the Irish Times and later a novelist. Report: Irish author Maeve Binchy dies at 72 2012-07-31T03:05:08Z

I also liked his tilting handlebar mustache, the kind of facial hair the novelist Jim Harrison would describe not as macho but as nacho. ‘Football’ and Other Books of the Season 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

Latimer, like many novelists who failed to achieve prominence as such, ended up writing for film and TV — a noir story in itself. Jonathan Kellerman's top 10 LA noir novels 2010-03-31T08:32:00Z

Joseph's second novel confirms him, to my mind, as one of the leading new Indian novelists – he tells great truths about modern India while being thoroughly entertaining. The publishing year 2012 2012-12-21T22:55:02Z

China Miéville at the Edinburgh international book festival, where he called for a uniform, blanket salary for writers, novelists and poets equivalent to the 'wage of a skilled worker'. China Miéville: Writers should welcome a future where readers remix our books 2012-08-21T18:15:42Z

He left the lesson-reading to others in the congregation, his theme being the creative imagination's similarity to religious belief and how he wouldn't really trust novelists who called themselves atheists. Bath festival's reading will revive the spirit of the King James Bible 2011-02-22T18:09:34Z

The novelist William Styron, writing in Washington Monthly, called “365 Days” a “moving account about tremendous courage and often immeasurable suffering.” Dr. Ronald Glasser, Bard of the Vietnam War Wounded, Dies at 83 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

But in fact, and perhaps counterintuitively, I’d say that the novelist who has most profoundly reflected on technology’s penetration — saturation — of human experience is Joyce. Tom McCarthy Thinks the Wrong Kurt Vonnegut Book Is Famous 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

“Nothing in my life is organized, especially not my books,” says the romance novelist, whose most recent book is “On the Corner of Hope and Main.” Beverly Jenkins Really Needs to Buy More Bookcases 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

As a novelist Dickens seems increasingly interested in meting out not happiness but justice — and justice on a broader scale than most mortals can compute. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 2: Great Expectations 2012-02-06T13:00:14Z

As essayist, activist, novelist and oral historian she is vital on the subject of land and people. The Classic Novel That Robert Macfarlane Just Couldn’t Finish 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

“Stop Reading My Fiction as the Story of My Life,” begs an editorial by the novelist Jami Attenberg, from 2017, pointing out that one’s imagination “is a beautiful place to hide.” One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Several first editions by 20th-century poets and novelists sat on a shelf in the laundry room. A Library the Internet Can’t Get Enough Of 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

A novelist turned historian, she tells Bolívar's story wonderfully, though specialists have noted factual errors and anti-Spanish bias. Bolívar by Marie Arana – review 2013-06-15T15:00:01Z

Buckley is among that large group of English novelists – let's call them The Great Unconsidered – whose work is continually overlooked. Nostalgia by Jonathan Buckley – review 2013-03-15T18:34:01Z

The sad truth about the book world is that it doesn’t need more yes-saying novelists and certainly no more yes-saying critics. Riff: A Critic’s Case for Critics Who Are Actually Critical 2012-08-15T15:40:06Z

The poet laureate of this kind of tale is the Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth, whose brisk, skittering books pounce on everyday experiences, revealing beneath their forensically detailed surfaces pools of risk and doubt. The Best Post Office Novel You Will Read Before the Election 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

But in the hands of the masterful novelist Dana Spiotta, “Wayward” becomes something else entirely — a mordant, coruscating indictment of these times, liberal politics, affluenza, self improvement and social identity. Review | Dana Spiotta’s ‘Wayward’ is much more than a midlife crisis novel 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

“Why wasn’t he a novelist? Because he loved the theater!” Why You’ll Probably Never Hear a Sondheim Concerto 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

This is heady company for a crime novelist to join, but Nesbo has repaid what may have been a wild hunch on the part of his publisher. Review | Jo Nesbo puts a Nordic chill on ‘Macbeth’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

For every male poet or novelist I admire, there's a female I admire as deeply – she just may not be getting the prizes. Forward poetry prize: who got rid of the women? 2011-07-14T12:06:45Z

His death was confirmed in an email by W. R. Owens, a fellow scholar with whom he wrote and edited several volumes about the 18th-century novelist Daniel Defoe. P. N. Furbank, Biographer of E. M. Forster, Dies at 94 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

The 83-year-old novelist, who used the library as a student and later researched his monumental “American Trilogy” in one of its reference rooms, plans to bequeath his personal library to it. America across the river 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

This might also be said of the novelist who created her. | 'The Select (The Sun Also Rises)': ?The Select (The Sun Also Rises)? - Review 2011-09-12T02:01:06Z

In the UK, he said, novelists were free to choose how much to write about politics. Ian McEwan attacks 'great injustice' in Israel 2011-02-20T21:24:47Z

Yet the reason I knew I was a nonfiction writer, rather than a novelist, was that it was clear from the beginning that the I – the narrator – was always going to be me. Feminist icon Vivian Gornick, still in the fight: A conversation with Jonathan Lethem 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z