It's amazing that there aren't more first novels about writing novels, considering the nearly universal admonition of writing teachers to "write what you know" and the tendency toward autobiography ...

The novel, written in a mix of second- and third-person formats, is Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s ambitious tale about what it took to write the novel ...

If you’re not familiar with the concept of metafiction, Jeff Kramer’s new novel, “Mud Season,” is a great introduction. Kramer is a former newspaper journalist in Syracuse who previously had beats in ...

Before he became the pickpocket and prison escapee immortalized as Mack the Knife in Brecht’s “Threepenny Opera,” Jack Sheppard was a nervous kid trying to talk to a sex worker at a pub. Or so Jordy ...

In his continued crusade against people with epilepsy, the auteur filmmaker that is Gaspar Noé is back with a new film that also happens to be an old film. Lux Æterna is a work that was once thought ...

When I first picked up Noor Naga’s If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English, I had to put it down after the first scene. After rebelling at her own daughter’s miserliness, the narrator’s beloved ...

No callers are identified. No conversations are recorded. No phone records are kept. Now speak clearly and when you are finished say: 'Go ahead'.

Chicago rapper Serengeti is one of the most emotionally wrenching MCs working today, his raw, confessional, slow-flowing intensity a marvel on works of fiction and non-fiction alike. His upcoming ...