With It Chapter Two out next month, plus the news that an adaptation of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is back on track, we count down the finest big-screen versions of King’s terrifying talesCujo arguably has more thrills. Apt Pupil certainly has more …

It is not simply the plight of his real-life subjects that still draws readers in their millions. The story’s force depends on its craftWhen Steinbeck finished The Grapes of Wrath in 1938, he expressed doubts about its quality. Since then, critics and …

For our weeklong series on crime fiction, we asked two writers to reflect on the ethics of depicting violent crimes in their novels. Below, New York contributing editor Adam Sternbergh, most recently the author of The Blinds, consider…

Good news for fans of The Best Show: Tom Scharpling has a memoir in the works. The comedian and longtime radio host turned podcast host announced today that the book, titled It Never Ends, will be published by Garrett McGrath at Abram…

Each month, Maris Kreizman offers nonfiction and fiction paperback recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible.Every editorial product is independently selected. If you buy an item through our links, Vu…

Poetry ought to be the preeminent form of this age — ****, every age. In a smattering of words, a poem can eulogize, satirize, criticize, proselytize.The greatest verse clues us into what Jane Hirshfield calls “poetry’s knowing,” its …

Dystopian fiction has been with us for at least a century and a half — that is, for as long as the acceleration of modernity has made us simultaneously desire and fear for the future. We’ve tended to know dystopia when we’ve seen it: …

On January 1, just as you were absolutely 100 percent adding “read more classic literature” to your list of New Year’s resolutions, a pile of great work became available in the public domain. What that means, essentially, is that more…