From a death obsessed young woman to the wives of convicted killers, March’s new releases are all about the interior worlds ...

New novels from Tana French, Emma Straub, Ben Lerner, Solvej Balle, Shannon Chakraborty, Tom Perrotta, Elizabeth Strout — and plenty more.

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 ...

Literary agent Eric Smith of P.S. Literary represents young adult novels, genre blending literary fiction, nonfiction and other genres. Smith uses Twitter to make connections, and believes being an ...

Researchers at New York%27s The New School say findings preliminary Subjects read short excerpts and then were tested on reading emotional cues Reading literary fiction %22may change how%2C not just ...

President Obama’s summer reading list is full of literary fiction. So is Richard Branson’s list of the books that influenced him the most. Both icons are exceptionally busy guys. Why do they make time ...

Your ability to "read" the thoughts and feelings of others could be affected by the kind of fiction you read. That's the conclusion of a study in the journal Science that gave tests of social ...

"Genre fiction" is a nasty phrase – when did genre turn into an adjective? But I object to the term for a different reason. It's weasel wording, in that it conflates lit fic with literature. It was ...

The growth of British literary fiction has been one of the most extraordinary publishing phenomena of recent decades. Not everyone has been pleased. The label "literary fiction" is often used ...