Lit Life

‘Shy Di’ gained poise and confidence from dance lessons, her teacher says in a new memoir

I live in Alabama, where people remember George Wallace — but Shomari Figures’ victory offers hope

A Frenchman’s great book about the United States still speaks to our times and the presidential election

Personal stories have fallen out of favor with editors and critics, but these steps may help you beat the odds

A few words on ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’

Novels about women who have sex with beasts are — on more than one level — hot. What’s behind the trend?

These are good enough to reread even if you know ‘whodunit’

Only the latest example comes from Sally Rooney, ‘the book world’s Taylor Swift’

Why the work of Philip Roth, Sholem Aleichem, and other authors transcends labels like ‘Jewish fiction’