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Three authors helped Britney Spears get her life story on the page.

For their adaptation of “Sabbath’s Theater,” John Turturro and Ariel Levy sought to preserve “the nasty side of existence” evoked in the book.

Dave Gonzales and Joanna Robinson, who collaborated with Gavin Edwards on the new book “MCU,” talk about Marvel Studios and the reign of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The novelist is competing with giants like William Faulkner, while mapping territory all her own.

These spine-tingling thrillers involve talking animals, vampires and zombies, supernatural monsters and serial killers.

The author of “Democracy Awakening” and a popular politics newsletter makes a powerful case for studying the past.

The Swedish Academy sends out thousands of invitations each year for professors and others in the literary world to nominate writers for the prize in a secretive and precise process.

The inductees will be honored at New York Comic Con on Oct. 13. Five are from the world of superheroes, and one is a pioneer of underground comics.

A new book argues that the isolation of a pre-social media era helped fuel a fertile Chicago ecosystem for offbeat stand-up comedians.

A growing number of video stars are using their online clout to break into the publishing world — and top the best-seller lists.