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Are they gas stations that serve food or restaurants that pump gas? A new photography book explores the lure of these restorative community rest stops.

Akbar had a raging addiction and little reason to believe his life would turn out well. Now he has a debut novel, “Martyr!,” which makes you want to “get up and yell.”

In “How to Be a Good Savage,” Mikeas Sánchez’ poems help preserve her language, Zoque, and allow it to commingle with English and Spanish, in an effort that is both global and deeply local.

These two titans of 20th-century literature and music formed a profound, yearslong relationship across generations and backgrounds.

What happens when writers embrace artificial intelligence as their muse?

Three new books explore the how, why and what that keep our world moving.

Fashionistas and celebrities gathered for a new book filled with candid shots of the understated Gen X star.

Looking for an escapist love story? Here are 2023’s sexiest, swooniest reads.

Kristen Arnett, k.d. lang, Myriam Gurba and 10 more on Rita Mae Brown’s breakthrough novel about lesbian identity, published 50 years ago this fall.

In the third installment of an essay series on literature and faith, Ayana Mathis explores how writers have grappled with one of theology’s oldest conundrums.