Stan Lee didn’t want to write superheroes. Although he wrote Captain America stories when he started working for his Uncle-in-Law Martin Goodman’s companies Timely, and later Atlas Comics, the ...

These are the books your favorite authors are most excited to pick up next year, including recommendations from Jodi Picoult, Kennedy Ryan, Abby Jiminez and more.

These memoirs, thrillers, romance, literary fiction, nonfiction and short stories ... One of those ways is reading books by Native and Indigenous authors that feature characters, storylines ...

Rooted in the complexities of family life in London’s Caribbean diaspora, Mr Loverman is full of humane wisdom and hard-won optimism Rooted not in racism, gang culture or the Windrush legacy ...

When I was 19 years old, in the early 1980s, I started writing a novel about the daughter of the first female United States president. I don’t think there has been a day since when I haven’t ...

Luckily, if you’re looking for a present with a difference, or even just a nice treat for yourself, there’s a host of fantastic live music shows coming up in Manchester throughout 2025 - and ...

“This sleek ride of a novel further cements Phillips’s position as one of our most profound writers of speculative fiction,” said The New York Times. This is described as a “genre-bending ...

‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’, the film series based on the world of the books by J.K. Rowling in 2001 about the magical creatures of the Harry Potter universe seems to have come ...

African authors take centre stage at the Valley Voices Fiction Fest this weekend. Nigerian novelist Umar Turaki will read from his new novel, Every Drop of Blood is Red at the opening event at the ...

Thousands of people, including prize-winning writers, signed a letter pledging not to work with “complicit” organizations. Many others opposed the call in a separate letter. By Alexandra Alter ...

A central character of the 2022 novel “Undermoney” is a New York hedge-fund magnate entangled in a world of corrupt spies, Russian mercenaries and vaults of shadowy money. In one passage, a ...

while “American Fiction,” the movie based on Everett’s “Erasure,” played with Hebrew subtitles in Israel last year. The authors also say they will “not cooperate with Israeli ...