When Hoffman was asked to edit “The Best Dog in the World,” a collection of essays from prominent writers about their dogs, she didn’t hesitate. The writers she approached — among them Bonnie Garmus, ...

Paramita’s debut novel Appetite is a love letter set in New Haven to Bangladeshi food and wrestling wrapped in an immigrant tale about ambition, belonging, and power. Bangladeshi cuisine and wrestling ...

Is it possible to be a moral person in our world? That's the question at the heart of the futuristic A Guardian and A Thief, longlisted for the Women’s Prize.

Steered by women and social media, Arabic calligraphy is seeing a resurgence in South India as an art form, beyond religious texts like the Quran ...

“The mountains would become in my life the symbol — and solution — of this conflict between the spirit and the senses, making straight the way to an understanding of purpose in life’s stumblings,” ...

If Dr. Siobhán Scarry’s new book were a piece of visual art, it would be described as “mixed media.” Parlor Press will ...

How the slow death of traditional book reviews is changing the way we fall in love with literature, and what fills the void.

Rooted in the Buddhist teaching of the bardo − states of ‘in-between’ − the text offers a way to understand death, life and transformation as deeply intertwined.

I had heard that if women learned to read, they would become widows.” This is how Rassundari Devi begins her remembrance of the world that shaped her life in Amar Jiban (My Life), written in 1876. It ...

The top court said that its orders in the matter were not intended to prevent any healthy and objective criticism of the institutional function of the judiciary.

ALTOONA, Pa. — The Writers Conference of Northern Appalachia (WCoNA) has selected “A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia,” edited by Penn State faculty members Todd Davis and Carolyn G. Mahan ...

Parsipur was imprisoned for her work four separate times: once under the shah, who ruled Iran before the Islamic Revolution ...