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Sleuths have wondered for years who made a striking cover for Madeleine L’Engle’s novel. A podcast host and a blog writer who contacted hundreds of people figured it out.

“I was looking for people like myself who thought and believed and aspired.”

The awards, which celebrate the best of American literature, are expanding the definition of who qualifies.

Madame Tussauds is at it again.

The U.N. climate conference, held in a petrostate, is a surreal moment. This darkly funny novel about Baku, oil companies and climate change in the first Trump term helps make sense of it all.

You could assemble an entire library of contemporary work fixated on literary imitation, appropriation and theft.

In this excerpt from “August Wilson: A Life,” the playwright, on the cusp of stardom, is polishing off his latest play, “Fences,” at the O’Neill writers’ conference.

Show off your cosmic colors!

“Revolution is the job of poets and artists,” says Ko Maung Saungkha, leader of a rebel militia fighting the Myanmar dictatorship. He is not the only poet commander in a country with a strong tradition of political verse.

It was once considered a virtue. Why do some people now think it’s a bad thing?