Why the latest literary trend favors short, punchy prose over epics. Novelists Anika Jade Levy and Jenny Offill weigh in.

The dynamics of long-time gay couple Jesse and Norman are completely upended when Norman is abducted by aliens in Steven Rowley's comic novel "Take Me With You." He talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Lucy Caldwell about her novel, "These Days." It's set during the days - and nights - of the Belfast Blitz, when Germany bombed the Irish city during WWII. In April of 1941, ...

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Haruki Murakami’s new novel, “The Tale of KAHO,” will be published on July 3, publisher Shinchosha Co. announced on April 23. The book marks the renowned Japanese author's first novel in three years, ...

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“You can slash a book,” says the narrator of Yiyun Li’s new novel, The Book of Goose. “There are different ways to measure depth, but not many readers measure a book’s depth with a knife, making a cut ...

Booksellers are keeping stashes behind counters, others are having to put signs in windows to say it’s in stock … What is it about the novel that has resonated with so many people? A good measure of a ...

The Great American Novel: A book that most perfectly imagines the kaleidoscope of our nation, its social fabric and its troubled conscience, its individual voices and strivings, our loves and losses.