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The author of “The Joy Luck Club” once vowed to have her papers destroyed after her death. Now they are going to the University of California, Berkeley.

And where to buy them.

There’s a lot of speculation going around.

Recent best sellers have reached for a familiar feminist credo, one that renounces domestic life for career success.

Hollywood glamour doesn't pay the rent.

Nearly 2,400 years ago, Plato worried that stories could corrupt susceptible minds. Moral panics over fiction have been common ever since.

The color has an unshakable hold on musicians, artists and writers.

Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing political realities.

Adam Higginbotham discusses his new book, “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space.”

In the third installment of an essay series on literature and faith, Ayana Mathis explores how writers have grappled with one of theology’s oldest conundrums.