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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...