Spider-Man and X-Men creator’s teenaged-superhero story A Trick of the Light also to be released this week as audiobookOne of the late Stan Lee’s final projects, a superhero origins story about two teenagers with extraordinary powers who must come toge…

The director and star of the horror classic remember acting with swarming insects – and using hypnosis to get a deeper performance from Virginia MadsenHorror was considered a debased genre in the early 90s and people were looking for a new direction. I…

After leaks showed him banning an LGBT club at the Christian school he co-founded, the novelist apologises for any hurt causedRomance novelist Nicholas Sparks has apologised for “potentially hurt[ing] young people and members of the LGBTQ community”, a…

When Paul Harding won the Pulitzer Prize for Tinkers at the age of 42, it was one of the biggest surprises in the history of American letters. The last time a small-press book won was nearly three decades earlier — John Kennedy Toole’…

Few American authors are better known and documented, and yet as little understood, as Sylvia Plath, whose writing has long outlived her suicide of 56 years ago. The perception of a writer overshadowed by her own dark legend — that vi…

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…

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