Enter for a chance to win our holiday collection including: Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan C. Slaght The Topeka School by Ben Lerner Jack by Marilynne Robinson Touched by the Sun by Carly Simon Wagnerism by Alex Ross Luster by Raven Leilani Garner’s Quotations by Dwight Garner
Long before he became one of the most renowned literary critics of our time, Dwight Garner started the practice of keeping a 'commonplace book' of literary quotations that spoke to him. His new book, Garner's Quotations, is a reflection of that lifelong attention—and celebration—of...
Jonas Hassan Khemiri is a 2020 finalist for the National Book Award in Translated Literature for his book, The Family Clause, a singular novel hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a "complex portrait of a family that is both identifiable and distinctive,...
Can a person act freely in a system that is completely rigged, in which every action is determined from the outset? Maybe you are haunted by this question as you slog off to Town Hall to vote. Maybe it is so bothersome that you...
Joan Didion is highly regarded as a writer of both nonfiction and fiction and received the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2007. Enter below for a chance to win a set of her books including The White Album,...
Back in 1967, the MP and philosopher Bryan Magee ventured a prediction in the Listener magazine. "Does anyone seriously believe" he asked, "that Beatles music will be an unthinkingly accepted part of daily life all over the world in the 2000s?" My old Latin teacher...
There is no other writer like Jamaica Kincaid. No one who makes the same incantatory sentences, making me feel both awe and terror. No one who is as intensely personal and hallucinatory. No one as interested in pursuing truth, even when it reveals not...
In awaiting the publication of Jack, the latest novel in Marilynne Robinson's beloved Gilead series, we asked some of FSG's younger writers to say a few words about how Marilynne's fiction has resonated in their own lives and work. The depth and acuity...
Enter below for a chance to win our Women's History Month Collection that includes: Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag: Uncanny Valley by Anna Weiner: Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold: Essays by Lydia Davis: High School by Sara Quin and Tegan...
Jonathan C. Slaght's Owls of the Eastern Ice has been longlisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction! Through a rare glimpse into the everyday life of a field scientist and conservationist, Owls of the Eastern Ice testifies to the determination and creativity essential...
Enter for a chance to win a copy of Luster, a bottle of limited edition nail polish, and a bundle of the newest books by some of its earliest supporters. The bundle includes the latest by Zadie Smith (Grand Union), Mary Gaitskill (This is...
Lawrence Joseph’s A Certain Clarity brings together poems selected from throughout his career, spanning his first book—1983’s Shouting at No One—to his most recent, So Where Are We? (2017). Joseph’s poetry has always grappled with the defining moments of our age, from...
A story collection takes shape over years, usually (or at least in my case, and that of most other writers I’ve known) without an overarching plan in place. The stories accumulate, creating patterns and echoes, until there is a group that one hopes will...
In January, thousands of customers flocked to a department store in Tianjin, China, stocking up on clothes and gifts for Chinese New Year. But as the month wore on, the store’s employees began to fall ill; over the course of just a few days,...
For this installment of “Developing Stories,” a series from Work in Progress, author Carlos Fonseca presents a series of visual pieces that guided him while writing his novel, Natural History. "Every novel is an archive or at least refers back to one. Storytelling has...
The only work James Harvey completed in the last year of his life (he died, this past May, at the age of 90) was a six page introduction to his late friend Gilberto Perez’ book The Eloquent Screen. And the writing of that short...
dayliGht is a dazzling collection of poems from a necessary new voice, at once a clarion call for stories of Black women and a rebuke of broken notions of sexuality and race. In her stunning debut, written in protest to an absence of representation,...
Laura van den Berg is known as “a prose master” (Entertainment Weekly) and Sigrid Nunez has referred to her as “one of our most imaginative storytellers." In this "Story Behind the Story", she brings us behind the scenes in writing "Hill of Hell,"...
In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to Washington, D.C. The Pentagon had reason to believe he was a homosexual, and after a series of humiliating interviews, Kameny, like countless...