In “Sheer,” the novelist Vanessa Lawrence imagines the improbable rise and inglorious fall of a self-made Gen X beauty mogul. By Caroline Palmer Pioneered by Edward Steichen, Lewis W. Hine and Tana ...

“I’m writing for the kid I used to be,” says Dav Pilkey, who defied expectations to create three blockbuster graphic-novel series. By Elisabeth Egan Tayari Jones, Ann Patchett, George Saunders and ...

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Erotic fiction gets a bad reputation, and it’s frankly unfair. Just because a work of literature can be a sexual turn-on does not inherently make it less than. Even "smutty" shouldn't have such a ...