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

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 ...

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

Even after he became a famous writer, Chekhov never stopped seeing patients. Literature classes worldwide study Anton Chekhov ...

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

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

(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 ...

Discover why George RR Martin chose a TV series adaptation for Game of Thrones after witnessing the failure of a $372M film ...

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