Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

If the truth is stranger than fiction, you gotta believe that the butterfly effect is real. The post People Are Sharing Cases ...

Many are hugely popular and famous in their own right. Platforms like Fanfiction.net ... hundreds of thousands of words inspired by an existing piece of “intellectual property”, IP for short. AO3 is ...

The legendary storyteller – who has two new books out – says the act of creation is the purest essence of magic itself ...

Seven years ago, Weike Wang published a debut novel to much acclaim. An elliptical work filtered through the perspective of a ...

the jury comprising screenwriter Urmi Juvekar and filmmakers Pushpendra Singh and Krishand RK gave the best short fiction ...

(Book World review.) Williams’s short-story collection is one of the year’s superlative debuts, a glorious creepfest reminiscent of work by Carmen Maria Machado, Mariana Enríquez and other ...

There are endless reasons to love the holiday season, including Christmas movies both new and old. This year, Netflix has ...

In reality, the long-term trend on literacy rates is flat. But you don’t have to make stuff up if you want to criticize US ...

A newly published collection of Djuna Barnes’s short fiction, I Am Alien to Life, stars rotting corpses, grieving loners and ...

"Wicked," starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, is based on the book of the same name by Gregory Maguire. But the book ...