Wrath of God: CJ Leede imagines the end of the world via a plague and a sect of murderous Catholic crusaders
American Rapture is a blood-soaked, ultra-violent allegory about the hypocrisies and inhumanity of our current political moment.
“Fun in Hell”: Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature
Krasznahorkai has been compared to other Eastern European writers such as Kafka and Thomas Bernhard.
Gas, food, mayhem: Nat Cassidy unleashes a tight, brutal reading experience in his novella Rest Stop
Those who prefer their horror straight up, with no chaser, should definitely check this one out.
Severed arms and spontaneous combustion: Eighteen horror writers address what draws them to the genre
Some authors take the remit quite literally, while others approach the task more elliptically.
A new biography of James Baldwin views his literary achievement through the prism of his various love affairs
Boggs is also adept at illustrating how far ahead of his time Baldwin was.
Trying to learn how to walk like heroes: Peter Ames Carlin’s new book is a deep dive into the making of Bruce Springsteen’s breakout album
There is no doubting the accomplishment of that record, just as there was no question in anyone's mind how important it was at the time.
Eighty years after the bombing of Hiroshima, John Hersey’s indelible journalistic excavation has things to teach us
Hiroshima has been considered a forerunner of the New Journalism that flourished in the 1960s.
Simon & Schuster to publish memoir by Kamala Harris in September
S&S is no stranger to publishing major political books across both sides of the aisle in the U.S.
Fox, the latest novel from Joyce Carol Oates, is a whodunit combined with a psychological dissection of an abhorrent character
Oates has generally carved a bifurcated path in her publication history.
Riding shotgun: Two disaffected teens take a road trip heading north and bad things happen in Vijay Khurana’s debut novel
The discontent and anomie of these characters practically seeps from their pores.