National Endowment for the Humanities Announces $31.5 Million in Grants

The third round of funding for the year will support 226 projects across the country.

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Frederick Buechner, Novelist With a Religious Slant, Dies at 96

He drew on his theological credentials in essays and memoirs, and his fiction, full of colorful characters, was admired for its elegance, wit and depth.

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Nicholas Evans, Author of ‘The Horse Whisperer,’ Dies at 72

He was a first-time novelist whose tale of a manly vocation and family trauma broke publishing and then movie rights records when Robert Redford bought them.

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The Stabbing of Salman Rushdie Renews Free Speech Debates

After the attack, writers and world leaders hailed Rushdie as a symbol of free expression. But the battle lines around his novel “The Satanic Verses” were never cleanly drawn.

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Penguin Random House’s C.E.O. Defends Bid to Buy Simon & Schuster

Madeline McIntosh argued that the publishing industry extends far beyond its biggest players, and that the government has focused on a tiny sliver of deals.

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Review: ‘Paul,’ by Daisy LaFarge

A debut novel views a middle-aged organic farmer through the eyes of a 21-year-old woman he preys upon.

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Audiobook or Podcast? Doesn’t Really Matter.

However you classify them, these narratives combine intellectual rigor with an undeniably bingeable format.

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Iran Denies Any Involvement in Attack on Salman Rushdie

But a spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, in the first remarks from the government since the assault, said the prizewinning author had crossed “red lines.”

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Elana Dykewomon, Author Who Explored Lesbian Lives, Dies at 72

In a five-decade career that began with the coming-of-age novel “Riverfinger Women,” she was outspoken in her fiction, her poetry and her life.

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Review: ‘Complicit,’ by Winnie M Li

In her new novel, “Complicit,” Winnie M Li explores the collateral damage of assault on both victims and witnesses.

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