American authors have shaped literature from Toni Morrison’s fiction to Emily Dickinson’s poetry. Discover acclaimed American ...

It’s hard to say what makes a book a favorite. It can be the story or something more amorphous: a turn of phrase, an author’s perspective, the way a situation speaks to you. This week, we ...

Poetry reading surged up a remarkable 76 percent, to 28 million people in 2017, with the numbers especially strong among young people. The share of 18-to-24-year-olds who read poetry more than ...

The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century Olga Ravn, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken New Directions, $19.95 (paper) A recent experimental science fiction novel by Danish poet ...

After his diagnosis with Alzheimer’s, fiction, poetry and memoirs provided support. “The Notebook” helped this caregiver understand the behaviors her father was displaying.

Fiction & Poetry. By The Washington Post. December 12, 2010 at 12:00 a.m. EST ...

Fiction: The Poetry of Deprivation. ... Released in 1951, he began to write of the experience, ultimately producing (along with a great deal of poetry) six books of first-person, ...

A National Book Award winner for his novel “The Known World,” Jones continues his examination of race and identity in this short fiction collection, which takes place in Washington, D.C ...