The children’s novel, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roald Dahl (1916–1990) combines the conventions of children’s fiction with a medieval morality play, in which obvious cases of vice are ...

Go into a bookshop. You are surrounded by classifications. Crime fiction, romance, science fiction, fantasy … These are the genres; they specialise. Crime fiction is a puzzle. Science fiction ...

(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) This post is by way of a reply to Arthur Krystal’s “Easy Writers,” a thoroughly thought-provoking piece about the ...

Is your dream to become the next JK Rowling or Stephanie Meyer? A new wave of writers is turning to self-publishing to turn ...

Ranked the top writing university in the nation, the University of Iowa’s professors of English and creative writing offer a plethora of unique courses, tackling special topics both in the classroom ...

I come to this a little late but I come to it with a smile I didn't think would materialise this gloomy Monday morning. If you're someone who, like me, gets grumpy about the pointlessness of the ...

The debate between literary fiction and genre fiction is a long-standing one. Genre fiction is accused of being insignificant and shallow while literary fiction is called pretentious and boring. There ...

This year at Yale, two new literature classes will push the boundaries — cultural, linguistic, and geographic — of what we talk about when we talk about medieval literature. The aims of the classes ...