The critic on combining book reviews and cultural criticism, exposing readers to challenging views, and reading multiple books at once.

The first lines of twelve noteworthy books, including Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine and Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi. 

The #PublishingPaidMe hashtag highlights anti-Black bias within the publishing industry and opens up the conversation about how editors determine book advances. 

Emma Glass’s Rest and Be Thankful, forthcoming from Bloomsbury Publishing on December 1, 2020.

With the spread of COVID-19, organizers of literary events across the United States have devised creative ways to move programming online and build community among writers.

A message to self-proclaimed allies: Actions speak louder than words. 

The pandemic has forced teaching writers and their students to move classes online, but that’s far from the only challenge for adjunct professors at colleges and universities across the country.

Carter Sickels recalls the challenges of juggling multiple first-person narrators in his novel The Prettiest Star.

The Anderson Center in Minnesota offers the nation’s only residency designed to give Deaf artists time to work alongside one another.

In the latest installment of a yearlong series on publishing professionals, four book marketers explain how they use advertising, social media, and other platforms to boost awareness about their titles.