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The title of Taylor Swift’s next album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” spurred strong responses from a typically quiet bunch.

During the months before she gave birth, our critic wrote — a lot. What happens when the impulse to put pen to paper becomes extreme?

The British author of dozens of literary works has denied the allegations that five women made against him on a podcast series.

In “All the Rage,” the social historian Virginia Nicholson discusses the changing standards that bedeviled and enthralled a century of women.

With a ban looming, publishers are hoping to pivot to new platforms, but readers fear their community of book lovers will never be the same.

A new survey shows that more people of color are working in the book business, but the industry remains overwhelmingly white.

Jayne Anne Phillips won the fiction award for “Night Watch,” while Jonathan Eig and Ilyon Woo shared the biography prize.

“James,” by Percival Everett won the fiction prize, and Jason Roberts received the biography prize for “Every Living Thing.”

The jury for the memoir category had raised concerns that the citizenship requirement was excluding a large part of American culture.

Cat Bohannon’s book, “Eve,” looks at the way women’s bodies evolved, and how a focus on male subjects in science has left women “under-studied and under-cared for.”