For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

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An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

Amid the inevitable violence and horror, there are the equally inevitable heroes and villains, but for everyone the world has ...

Media organizations are preparing for what they fear will be a legal and political onslaught from the new administration. By David Enrich and Katie Robertson David Enrich’s latest book ...

He uses more provocative “woke mob” rhetoric in public, but Harris, a New York Times staff writer who covers book publishing ... novel yet. The Book Review Podcast: Each week, top authors ...

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Joan Aiken’s neo-Gothic; Joseph Roth’s family epic.

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