"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." But even if you already know what type of books you like, it can be fun to expand your horizons and ...

The debate between literary fiction and genre fiction is a long-standing one. Genre fiction is accused of being insignificant and shallow while literary fiction is called pretentious and boring. There ...

A s a fannish undergraduate in the late 1990s, I took a creative-writing workshop thinking I might write science fiction. I was quickly disabused of that notion. “I don’t do science fiction, and I don ...

(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) This post is by way of a reply to Arthur Krystal’s “Easy Writers,” a thoroughly thought-provoking piece about the ...

The children’s novel, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roald Dahl (1916–1990) combines the conventions of children’s fiction with a medieval morality play, in which obvious cases of vice are ...