(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) This post is by way of a reply to Arthur Krystal’s “Easy Writers,” a thoroughly thought-provoking piece about the ...

Young Adult is a relatively new category of fiction, so a little history might be helpful. Until the mid-1900s, books tended to be divided into Children’s and Adult’s. That’s not to say that young ...

Genre fiction by such authors as Colleen Hoover, N.K. Jemisin, and Rebecca Roanhorse remain extremely popular, and publishers have been increasing their output to meet the demand in recent years for ...