The latest volume of “Alaska Quarterly Review” is, like those of its last 39 years, packed full of some of the most creative and powerful prose and poetry of its time. Its 10 short stories, eight ...

Margaret C. Anderson was at the center of a notorious literary-obscenity trial. Then she was forgotten.

Literary allusions are everywhere. What are they good for? By A.O. Scott You see it everywhere, even if you don’t always recognize it: the literary allusion. Quick! Which two big novels of the past ...

Lovers of great books will take any excuse to drop back into resonant scenes and stories. They happily reread old favorites in print, listen to them afresh on audiobook or dip into summaries that ...

I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Alice Walker and others were cultural ...

Some novels entertain you. Others enter you. HIM, HER & I is one of those rare stories that quietly slips under your skin ; not with noise, but with emotional precision. Opeyemi Akintunde writes ...