Podcasting is an enormous industry, reportedly bringing in over $7 billion of revenue in 2024. Podcasts are not only ...

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Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick is Culpability by Bruce Holsinger.

A one-two punch of grindhouse horror from one of the craft’s most inventive practitioners.

In Maddox’s historical novel, a Jewish woman in Milan must contend with extraordinary pressure to convert to Christianity.

An existence of pleasingly dull normality is upended when a gastropod becomes a creature of the night. Bob lives an uneventful snail life until one evening, after a series of sounds—a scream, three ...

DeLisi presents a science primer in the form of talks between a mother, a father, and their very curious teenage child.

When you sit down to write a story, sometimes the hardest part can be just getting started. After all, the beginning of a tale ...

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An examination of New York’s Central Park and its history, set in the context of global climate change.

Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

Michelle Huneven is a writer of smart and warm but prickly novels—always set in California—and I’ve been recommending them to people for years. Her latest, Bug Hollow (Penguin Press, June 17), drops ...