Essay collections appear infrequently on the lists of most popular nonfiction — memoirs and historical narratives dominate conversations about the genre. Those forms of nonfiction are wonderful in ...

MAYBE THE PEOPLE WOULD BE THE TIMES By Luc Sante 328 pp. Verse Chorus. Paper, $19.95. Image Sante’s collection of essays is a cabinet of curiosities, filled with the dark, the curious, the marvelous, ...

The novelist’s remarks went viral after she criticized former students as well as “social-media-savvy people who are choking on sanctimony and lacking in compassion.” By Alexandra Alter For more than ...

A year and a half ago I gave birth to my first child. A girl named Olive. I’m a writer and a writing teacher so, naturally, our friends and family gave us books. One after another, we unwrapped ...

My long-lost friend Octavia Butler wrote stories that have been read by hundreds of thousands of us, to great acclaim. She was a role model, an award-winner, and by most standards, a genius. Many of ...