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"Using adverbs is a mortal sin," declares Elmore Leonard. "Prayer might work," offers Margaret Atwood. Does any of this help? Molly Young weighs in ...  read more »

If news, as a commodity purveyed by reporters, is coming to an end, when and how did it start? Brian Cathcart finds out ...  read more »

When Wallace Stevens died, few of his Connecticut insurance colleagues even knew he was a poet. With the recent release of his "Selected Poems", Ryan Ruby revisits a man who proved that to be a great poet, no great experience is necessary ...  read more »

Lydia Davis is a writer’s writer with some distinguished fans. With the publication of her “Collected Stories”, she talks to Emily Bobrow about language, precision and what she picked up from translating Proust ...  read more »

The most important Jewish writer since Kafka may have also been a part-time beauty columnist with a penchant for Chanel suits. Benjamin Moser describes his fascination with Clarice Lispector ...  read more »

Ex-socialite, ex-art dealer, ex-cokehead, ex-con and ex-magazine editor-publisher, Farah Damji has written a memoir. Michael Gross considers her half-confession, half-plea for understanding ...  read more »

Blogs, Twitter, Facebook: these outlets are supposedly cheapening language and tarnishing our time. But the fact is we are all reading and writing much more than we used to, writes Anne Trubek ...  read more »

Martin Amis says his next novel will be “blindingly autobiographical”. Julie Kavanagh gets in first and writes a memoir of their life together in the 1970s, with a little help from her friends—and Amis himself ...  read more »

What happened to German literature during the second world war? John Williams reviews "Publishing in Exile: German-Language Literature in the U.S. in the 1940s" at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York ...  read more »

Zombie-filled adaptations, erotic fan-fiction, silly sequels, treacly films--Jane Austen's novels have inspired them all. Why? Elizabeth Gumport has an answer ...  read more »