"Books are a uniquely portable magic." Many readers have, at some point, come across this famous Stephen King quote. The process of creating books is also magic, and that magic gives characters their ...

THERE are other reasons besides weakness of will which lead people to prefer novels to congressional documents or tables of statistics, even when both have reference to the same problems. Literature ...

After a star-studded Democratic National Convention full of impassioned cries to get out the vote, it’s hard not to feel like the country is on the verge of electing its first Black female President.

ONE of the peculiar literary developments of the present age is the political novel, — a form of fiction of which scattered specimens have existed for nearly a century, but which only of late has ...

Summer reading always meant fiction, and often trashy fiction — the kind of books you'd buy at the airport to read on the beach and leave in your hotel room. But in this extensive presidential ...

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Margaret Atwood, Héctor Tobar, Thomas Mallon and Brenda Wineapple on older political novels they admire that have a lot to say about the world today. Inevitably, 2020 has been a year filled to the ...

Political readers were treated to a number of notable titles this year centering around some of the top news stories of 2021, including the early months of President Biden's administration, the Jan. 6 ...

Holly is a gripping crime novel — one that's very close to the traditional King horror aesthetic. The author hasn't been shy about his politics,... "Books are a uniquely portable magic." Many readers ...