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Rushdie’s new collection of essays includes an argument for brio-filled imaginative writing in an age of the humbler delights of autofiction.

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Fill the month of May with books. • 30 min read On Location: May 27, 2021 Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.Mary Jane/Jessica Anya Blau, Summer on the Bluffs/Sunny Hostin, That Summer/Jennifer Weiner, Tokyo Ever After/Emiko Jean I can feel the first hints of summer swirling in the air. The tulips opening up, flashing us. Our sweatpants discarded, replaced by long flowy skirts. Lightweight jackets now hang by the front door, our winter overcoats stashed back in the closet. Ice cream trucks j...

‘What use is ruin?’ asks Emily Wilkes, protagonist of I’m Dying Laughing, the posthumous novel by the Australian Marxist author Christina Stead. ‘Communists should not be ruined: they should stay on top.’ Unfortunately for Emily, ruin is the abiding theme of Stead’s impressive and neglected oeuvre. Her last novel, left unfinished and assembled from drafts by her literary trustee after her death in 1983, occupied her for at least the final thirty years of her life. Its incompleteness is a testament to the difficulty of capturing the full ruinous extent of the lives of its characte...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 4, 2021) — Acclaimed poet George Ella Lyon’s latest work, “Back to the Light,” is now available from the University Press of Kentucky. The former Kentucky poet laureate’s brilliant new collection traces the arc of a woman's life from girlhood to mature womanhood. In answer to the first poem, "Little Girl Who Knows Too Much," Lyon embarks on a journey from a child who was silenced to "Some Big Loud Woman" who claims the right to a voice. Along the way she meets allies and guides including Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Mary Travers, Grace Paley, and the giver ...

The Books That Made Me: 8 Writers on Their Literary Inspirations In decades past, the Book Review occasionally asked young authors about their biggest influences. For our 125th anniversary, we put the question to a new generation. Video April 15, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET In 1984, The New York Times Book Review presented a group of writers under 40 with a simple challenge: Name the writer or writers who have most influenced your work and explain how. While many of these authors were just beginning their careers, they later became some of the most widely read and respected artists of their generation...