In 2010, inspired to Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing, The Guardian asked some of the world’s most respected writers to share their best tips for writing fiction. Here’s the list American novelist and essayist Jonathan…

The internet has turned on him, his book sales are down and the TV adaptation of his last novel has stalled. But he wants you to know one thing: He’s not even angry.

This is Mr. Franzen’s most fleet-footed, least self-conscious and most intimate novel yet.

Walter and Patty Berglund were the young pioneers of Ramsey Hill—the first college grads to buy a house on Barrier Street since the old h...

Jeffrey Eugenides insists his new novel is not a roman à clef. But it might have been: The writers of his generation had youths tangled enough for ten novels.

Twenty years after 'The Corrections', the author’s latest novel is the first in a trilogy about the travails of a white middle-class family in the Midwest

Even if, as his book Crossroads suggests, it’s nearly impossible to make it stick.

Read 1,021 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a collection of essays t…

In Franzen’s new novel, the members of a suburban Chicago family headed by a pastor confront crises of faith and morality.