From Billy Porter's captivating memoir and poems that capture a "Black woman's heart" to the tale of an interracial rock duo in the '70s, here are books by contemporary Black authors that celebrities ...

In the last couple decades, fantasy has undergone a metamorphosis. No longer merely the province of quests and chosen ones, ...

The world of contemporary literature is always changing and it’s hard to know what books are worth the hype and what the buzz is all about—so we did the hard work for you. We’ve assembled 23 ...

Successful people and good leaders, although not all of them, share a common habit, which is the love for reading. Some of them are so passionate that they set goals to read at least a dozen books ...

Unnamed Press, a new publishing house based in Los Angeles, started out with a completely different name. When Chris Heiser and Olivia Smith launched Ricochet Books in 2013, they didn’t expect to be ...

Ukraine has a thriving contemporary literature scene with writers from across the country working in multiple genres. There’s a wide variety of texts for readers to choose from, whether they prefer ...

The first time I picked up a book by a Nigerian author, I was in college, sifting through my understanding of what it meant to be black. The book was Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and it's ...

PW: Your last novel, Atonement, had a historical setting—England before WWII—that's unusual in your work. Is there a reason for the return to a contemporary setting in Saturday, which takes place in ...

Romanian contemporary literature seems to be better integrated with the international circuit, thanks both to the constant institutional support it receives and the festivals, translations, ...