Some books have it; others don’t. The have-nots have gotten a lot of critical attention in recent years: Think of novels that ...

Plotting the Novel: While your characters are the beating heart of your novel, your plot is its bones. Whether you are an outliner or someone who works on the fly, this basic architecture (the novel’s ...

Ahead of 'The Plot's release, Hanff Korelitz spoke with THR about writing a new novel in the middle of the pandemic, how it sparks a conversation about writers and releasing a novel following a hit ...

This review contains spoilers. Chloe Gong’s new novel, “Coldwire,” left me in a cold sweat after an extraordinary plot twist ...

In the 1967 lecture “Cybernetics and Ghosts,” Italian author and critic Italo Calvino asks us to imagine a machine that composes literature. Would the authorship of the resulting works cheapen their ...

NORTH ADAMS — When Deborah Benoit retired after decades as a legal secretary, she planned to finally focus on her writing. She never could have pursued it professionally earlier in her life; after all ...