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The Romance Writers of America is again embroiled in controversy after giving its Vivian Award to Karen Witemeyer’s At Love’s Command, a historical romance observers say glorifies the genocide of Lakota people at the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890.

This new novel is a tale of union organizing, class struggle, and romance.

This new publication brings the work of this astonishing novelist, a satirist and humorist of biting insight, to new audiences.

What will writers do when the outrage is over? Will they go back to writing about flowers and moons?

Under the slick suits and high tension shootouts, America’s favorite thrillers are hiding something.

John le Carré died Saturday at eighty-nine. His novels rejected the glamor and ritz of Cold War–era spy fiction. Instead, he portrayed espionage as a dreary, disturbing machine that ground up innocents for a goal that didn’t justify the human cost.

Walter Mosley's incredible speech from last month's National Book Awards, receiving The Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters - the first African American man to receive this award.

Ten guesses why social justice activism rarely appears in our novels and movies. In the midst of major popular uprising, where are the lists of stories that would draw us into the heads and hearts of activist characters taking on injustices they face

In Vineland, Thomas Pynchon's dour 1990 novel, the author of Gravity’s Rainbow anticipated a United States where all available definitions of freedom are channeled through security apparatuses understood as the greatest good. Sound familiar?