The result, “This Is Where the Serpent Lives,” has earned rave reviews for the way it captures life in Pakistan across a half ...

As I have mentioned in previous columns, the novelist Don Winslow announced he was retiring and then he changed his mind about it and at least for the moment, is unretired.

There should be a whole book about Rhonda Bacon. In the short story “Screaming Angel,” Rhonda is on her way to a boxing match when she comes upon a gruesome scene on a Las Vegas sidewalk. A security ...

Her first and only collection of short fiction, gleaned from her archive, pulses with energy and struggling characters. By Alexandra Kleeman Alexandra Kleeman is a fellow at the American Academy in ...

Otto Penzler has had a long career as a publisher, editor, bookstore proprietor, and is surely our leading authority on the mystery genre. He’s also a big fan of Christmas. His Manhattan bookstore, ...

Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” won in fiction, while Omar El Akkad’s reckoning with Gaza took the nonfiction prize. By Elizabeth A. Harris Omar El Akkad ...