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When her father died, the author of “Americanah” produced a slim work of nonfiction. When her mother died, she poured her grief into a sprawling 416-page novel.

“Why can’t ballet be a roller coaster?” Helen Pickett said of her and James Bonas’s full-length work, premiering this week at American Ballet Theater.

The author Molly Roden Winter discusses her new memoir, “More,” about her and her husband’s decision to have an open marriage.

His screenplay, based on his own youthful experience, was nominated for an Oscar. His other films included “Sweet November,” based on his own unproduced play.

Matar won a Pulitzer Prize for his memoir, “The Return,” mourning his homeland and his father. In his new novel, he turns to the untranslatability of exile — and friendship.

The fate of Harvard’s president is the latest evidence of a deep crisis in American academia.

The novelist is competing with giants like William Faulkner, while mapping territory all her own.

The Swedish Academy sends out thousands of invitations each year for professors and others in the literary world to nominate writers for the prize in a secretive and precise process.

The Swedish Academy sends out thousands of invitations each year for professors and others in the literary world to nominate writers for the prize in a secretive and precise process.