The world of contemporary literature is always changing and it’s hard to know what books are worth the hype and what the buzz ...

From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has plenty of science fictional ...

Catch up on the year’s best new novels with Katie Rosseinsky and Jessie Thompson’s edit of 2024’s most memorable fiction ...

By Deborah Crossland “I love the inherent optimism and boldness” in young adult fiction, says the novelist, best known for reimagining classic fairy tales. Her new book is the contemporary rom ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times ... expert who was passing off modern mixtures as vintage spirits among enthusiasts, Rail’s book delivers a lively stand-alone ...

Seuss’s sixth collection is a mock primer for understanding poetry, with its poems titled after devices and forms such as simile, allegory, and ballad—conventions which, in the book ...

Contemporary fiction in French has become a polycentric and transnational field of vibrant and varied experimentation; the collapse of the distinction between 'French' and 'Francophone' literature has ...

Robin Robertson’s new translation of a modern epic—first published, in Swedish, fifty years ago—traverses the shifting borders and legacies of a world at war. “Glory be to god for septic ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Addressing the question of why many Latin American fiction authors are writing about Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust now, ...

We science fiction fans are going to have our work cut out for us to make it through all the riches on offer this month.