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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt There and Back Again
What J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic The Hobbit still has to offer, 80 years after its publication
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Katie Posner How My First Novel Became a Movie
It took 14 years of false starts, navigating Hollywood, and a modest payout for my book Carrie Pilby to be adapted into a Netflix film.
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Beawiharta / Reuters Eka Kurniawan's Darkly Comic Tale of Boyhood
Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash, by the Indonesian author of Beauty Is a Wound, is a surreal, poignant account of a teen attempting to become a man.
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Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters A Novel That Imagines a World Without Bees
Maja Lunde’s climate-fiction debut uses species extinction to ask its human characters: What’s more important, self-interest or sacrifice?
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Nina Subin / Zak Bickel / The Atlantic Marjorie Liu on the Road to Making Monstress
The comic-book writer discusses working for Marvel, the loneliness of novel-writing, and why her epic-fantasy series is mostly populated by women and characters of color.
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Mary Altaffer / AP 'What More Do You Need?'
In What Happened, Hillary Clinton’s latest memoir, the politician has become cautiously diaristic.
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Doug McLean Jenny Zhang: 'Tiny Stories' Are Vital to Literature
The Sour Heart author discusses Roberto Bolaño’s “Dance Card,” humanizing minor characters through irreverence, and homing in on history’s footnotes.
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Katie Posner Why I’m Still Trying to Get a Book Deal After 10 Years
A writer explains her dedication to becoming a published author—and how her approach has changed over the last decade.
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Quercus Books Basket of Deplorables Riffs on Trump's America
A new collection of short stories by Tom Rachman considers privacy and cultural bubbles in a post-truth era.
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Katie Posner The Book He Wasn't Supposed to Write
A best-selling author submits a draft to his editor. Hijinks ensue.
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Katie Posner The Invisible Artists Behind Your Favorite Comics
Colorists and and letterers bring a silent medium to life, and their work often goes undetected—especially if they’re great at their jobs.
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Dominic Ebenbichler / Reuters Beast Celebrates a Man's Abrupt Return to Nature
Paul Kingsnorth’s novel, the second volume in a planned trilogy, builds on the ecological, humanist terrain of the writer’s previous work.
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Associated Press Storytellers Grapple With the Porn Identity
In new works, Jon Ronson and Tom Perrotta examine the cultural impact of a digital sexual revolution.
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Katie Posner Writing in Someone Else’s World
I stumbled on a high-pay, low-prestige way to enter the publishing world—and overcame my reservations to make the most of the opportunity.
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Melpomene / Shutterstock / Zak Bickel / The ... What We're Reading This Summer
A collection of books recommended by The Atlantic’s editors and writers
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Rafael Marchante / Reuters Why Men Pretend to Be Women to Sell Thrillers
Over the last decade, female writers have come to dominate crime fiction, a genre traditionally associated with men. But their appeal goes beyond the byline.
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Nina Subin What We Lose: A Striking Novel About Filial Grief
Zinzi Clemmons’s debut tangles with familiar questions, using a propulsive experimentalism in lieu of linear narrative.
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Patrick McMullan / Getty What Michiko Kakutani Talked About When She Talked About Books
After 38 years at The New York Times, the woman whose name became synonymous with book culture in America is retiring from the paper.
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Manish Swarup / AP The 13 Writers Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize
Arundhati Roy, Zadie Smith, Colson Whitehead, and George Saunders are among the authors in contention for the British literary award.
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Other Press The Swedish Novel That Imagines a Dystopia for the Childless
Ninni Holmqvist’s 2009 book “The Unit,” newly reissued, imagines a world in which people who haven’t procreated are forced to make a different—ultimate—contribution to society.
