Historical Fiction

Literature

Twenty Years of Liesel: What The Book Thief Knows Now That It Didn't Then

Markus Zusak's novel turns twenty with a new anniversary edition containing unpublished notebook pages and a personal letter from the author. The book has not changed. We have.

Literature

'Taiwan Travelogue' Wins the 2026 International Booker: A First for Mandarin Chinese Fiction

Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translator Lin King have won the 2026 International Booker Prize for Taiwan Travelogue — the first novel written in Mandarin Chinese to claim the award. A story of love and postcolonialism in 1930s Japanese-occupied Taiwan that reshapes the world literary map.

News

Connie Corleone Finally Gets Her Story: Adriana Trigiani Rewrites The Godfather

Adriana Trigiani will reimagine The Godfather from the perspective of Connie Corleone in a novel acquired by Random House in an eight-way auction. A long-overdue correction to Puzo's world.

Reviews

The Voices of the Dead Cost Five Dollars a Month

Bob Dylan launched a Patreon selling imagined voices of nineteenth-century historical figures, signed by ghost authors who don't exist. Everything points to AI. And the Nobel Laureate in Literature is at the center of it.

Literature

The Apache World Nobody Told: Álvaro Enrigue's Now I Surrender

Álvaro Enrigue resurrects Apachería — the lost country between Mexico and the United States — in a novel that is at once historical epic and act of reparation. A story that could only have been told from south of the Rio Grande.