Every now and then there is a book with a character so well-written, so well-developed, that you instantly fall in love with them. 1.The Lonesome Dove series: "I would read a hundred books about those ...

Classic characters feel more real than the people around us because they offer total emotional access, a slower pace that ...

Times — and The Times — have changed since the first Festival of Books was held in 1996. What hasn’t is our commitment to this vibrant community of readers and writers, with the annual spring ritual ...

The majority of books banned last school year highlighted stories featuring people of color and LGBTQ+ characters and subjects. A recent analysis of thousands of banned titles by PEN America found ...

For those unfamiliar with the term, a “book boyfriend” is essentially a fictional male character from a book—often in the romance genre—who the reader develops a crush on. Having crushes on fictional ...

Fan fiction is essentially original writing about existing fictional characters or, sometimes, real people like celebrities. The original medium fan fiction is based on can vary from books, movies, ...

This past summer saw an interesting micro-trend of a half-dozen books set in the surreal realm of reality television—mostly the cutthroat haze of dating shows like The Bachelor, but also some more ...

The host of ‘Oprah’s Book Club’ answered fan questions on Threads, and announced her 107th book club selection Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both ...

Novelist Claire Messud comes from a family of writers. Her latest novel is inspired by her grandfather's handwritten book. In it, she excavates generations of family history through fiction. Although ...

To all the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror characters, TV series, and other creations that took their final bows this year: we'll ...

You don’t have to be real to be rich, and in today’s tumultuous economy, living in fantasy is a lot less likely to lead to disappointment. For You: I’m a Self-Made Millionaire: 6 Steps I Took To ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...