The first principle of the medical doctor’s Hippocratic oath is: above all, do no harm. And I think that applies to the fiction writer, too, presuming his subject is worthy of such caution. In fact, ...

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A conversation with bestselling writer Walter Mosley about his hard-boiled character Easy Rawlins and a life in crime writing. Walter Mosley, American novelist. He has written more than 50 books, ...

I have always been a fan of both gothic literature and magic realism. I began to wonder why I had never tried my hand at ...

NBC News anchor and reporter Morgan Radford's great-grandparents' journey from Jamaica and Cuba to the U.S. spurred her to ...

Madhur Anand is a scientist and poet making her fiction debut with To Place a Rabbit. The novel explores love, identity and ...

Pan Haitian, born in 1975 in Fujian province, graduated from Tsinghua University's Department of Architecture and is regarded ...