The children’s novel, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roald Dahl (1916–1990) combines the conventions of children’s fiction with a medieval morality play, in which obvious cases of vice are ...

Book lovers know that you can't always describe a book as simply being "fiction" or "nonfiction." That's why there are so many specific genres that books fall into. Genre is just another name for ...

(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) This post is by way of a reply to Arthur Krystal’s “Easy Writers,” a thoroughly thought-provoking piece about the ...

Ranked the top writing university in the nation, the University of Iowa’s professors of English and creative writing offer a plethora of unique courses, tackling special topics both in the classroom ...

I come to this a little late but I come to it with a smile I didn't think would materialise this gloomy Monday morning. If you're someone who, like me, gets grumpy about the pointlessness of the ...

Essential novels that shaped the literary genre and influenced countless works ...

The debate between literary fiction and genre fiction is a long-standing one. Genre fiction is accused of being insignificant and shallow while literary fiction is called pretentious and boring. There ...

Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize in Literature has reignited a debate about whether his writing falls into sci-fi or fantasy genres. Whether Ishiguro's work is fantasy or not has already caused ...

This year at Yale, two new literature classes will push the boundaries — cultural, linguistic, and geographic — of what we talk about when we talk about medieval literature. The aims of the classes ...

Literary fiction is an artificial luxury brand but it doesn’t sell. So nobody benefits by fencing it off from more popular writing It’s always a problem when one of literature’s big beasts wanders off ...