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Often compared to Orwell and Kafka, he walked a political tightrope with works that offered veiled criticism of his totalitarian state.

Kadare received the inaugural International Booker Prize in 2005. In his books, the prolific Albanian author offered a window into the psychology of oppression. Here’s where to start.

Two sponsors have withdrawn from the event, planned for Wednesday, after learning that some of the authors involved are planning to make a political statement about the conflict.

Even after doing research in Montana, a draft of the book that became “The Heart in Winter” was “dead on the page,” he says. Back in Ireland, the runaway lovers now at its center “suddenly appeared to me.”

“Prince Faggot,” “Figaro/Faggots” and other productions use the word to shock, provoke, reclaim it for gay men or all of the above. Does that make it OK?

Oni Press will revive the beloved horror and sci-fi name with new stories starting this summer.

Our critics Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai discuss some of their favorite books that take place on the road (and that aren’t “On the Road”).

The award-winning mystery novelist’s new book, “Ecstasy,” is a supernatural feminist take on Euripides’ play “The Bacchae.”

My students’ easy access to chatbots forced me to make humanities instruction even more human.

He helped forge a movement asserting that scholars must put aside their modern-day assumptions and prejudices to fully understand how people acted and thought in the past.