American Novelists

Stanford scholar Héctor Hoyos research goes beyond famed writers to uncover a whole generation of Latin American authors who are contributing…

Commentary by Dr. Gerhard Falk From the time of the first volume of Yiddish poetry published in America in 1877 to the end of the Yiddish era…

A list we had hoped our readers would enjoy turned out to be one of the most popular features in Adventure s five-year history. You asked for…

A version of this Best Sellers report appears in the April 10, 2016 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings on weekly lists reflect…

Before I address the subject of this blog, I just want to say that some people have pointed out to me that writing and oral storytelling are…

Everyone loves second-hand bookshops, don’t they? The satisfaction of leafing through some dusty volume of antiquarian musings, the rich scent…

When people talk about American Indian women novelists, the names that come to mind are typically Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich and Joy…

In late 2013, a reporter at the New York Times made a startling observation: that Wikipedia had gradually started removing women authors from…

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Helen Oyeyemi’s new short-story collection, “What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, ” illustrates the necessity and power of private, written confessions…

Quick: Who was the first professional writer in America? What was the first great American novel? Scratching your head? These seem like they…

Since 2, 21st Century novels have taken fiction in a new and exciting direction, though it has become much harder to weed out the good from the…

I’ve read Anne Lamott’s and Stephen King’s On Writing. I learned the writing craft from books about writing nonfiction and fiction, plays and…

Which of these books is labled as a black novel as opposed to just a novel? I’m guessing that the prolific Donna Hill’s Wicked Ways is the book…