The notion of ‘coming of age’ is one that has for long been a monopoly for Western popular media, its origin lying in the bildungsroman novel. Naturally, when o ...

Vincenzo Latronico’s slender volume captures a culture of exquisite taste, tender sensitivities, and gnawing discontent.

Magic, fairies, sci-fi, and mythology all offer a fun escape, but sometimes the world around us can be as magical and dramatic as the best imagined one. Kids love seeing themselves in relatable ...

connecting his life story to his fiction. In ‘It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time,’ comedy writer Bruce Vilanch tells stories of ‘The Star Wars Christmas Special’ and other legendary flops.

NYU boasts hundreds of different clubs and organizations that you can get involved in, including those focused on providing ...

Inspired by letters shared between the author’s parents, this debut novel set in the pre-Independence period features educated, empowered and independent women ...

He is one of the most influential Scottish writers of his generation and his works have been pinpointed as a turning point ...

Good Girl,” by the German-born writer Aria Aber, asks what it means to want to belong to a society that wishes you harm.

The broadcaster and writer is president of Hay Festival, which takes place in May and June. Colin Smythe reflects on the near five decades he worked with author Sir Terry Pratchett. This year's ...

I recently attended a performance of the National Theatre and Bristol Old Vic’s musical adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre, a story that brilliantly reimagines the Bildungsroman ...

Great Expectations (1861) in particular demonstrates Dickens’ ludic credentials. A sense of progression is common in the Bildungsroman or “progress” novel, but Pip seems to embody ideas of ...

An editor at a Knopf imprint, she had long wanted to publish an English translation of the last novel by Chaim Grade, one of the leading Yiddish authors of the 20th century. Grade was less well ...