It’s time to check in: How’s the year in books coming along for you, dear reader? As we approach the conclusion of 2024, we’re enjoying an embarrassment of literary riches—and now we’re ...

Happily, there are a host of witty, satirical and downright hilarious books out there, waiting to put a smile back on our faces. From comic novels and memoirs, to essays and poetry, humour has filled ...

An amateur Irish historian says he is still coming to terms with finding a long-lost story by Dracula author Bram Stoker. Gibbet Hill was published in the Dublin edition of the Daily Express in ...

A.J. Jacobs is a bestselling author, journalist and podcaster. He has written four New York Times bestsellers that combine memoir, science, humor and a dash of self-help.

LONDON — Hailed as “one of the greatest storytellers” of the 20th century, Roald Dahl wrote some of Britain’s most beloved children’s books, sprinkled with magical characters like “Fan ...

He approached Paul Murray, author of From the Shadow of Dracula: The Life of Bram Stoker, who had uncovered lost Stoker stories himself. He “verified that I wasn’t dreaming and this was a ...

“Gibbet Hill” is a creepy little tale. It is also, according to Paul Murray, author of the biography “From the Shadow of Dracula: A Life of Bram Stoker,” and an expert on ...

Stoker biographer Paul Murray says the story sheds light on his development as an author and was a significant “station on his route to publishing Dracula”. The ghostly story tells the tale of ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Ruins are a theme in this week’s recommended books, from the collapse of the Victoria’s Secret lingerie empire to the lives ...

A New York Times bestselling author who wrote mystery stories was arrested this summer for possessing child pornography, according to reports. A grand jury in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, ...

After two years of Europe-centric Nobel Prizes in Literature (Jon Fosse, Annie Ernaux), the Swedish Academy has looked east this year. It has awarded the 2024 prize to South Korean writer Han Kang ...

The committee praised her work for its “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” ...