On the writer W.G. Sebald.

A profile of Jenny Offill, whose latest novel addresses climate collapse.

An interview with the novelist.

A major black novelist made a remarkable début. How did he disappear?

Ahmed Naji’s novel was not overtly political, but the “protagonist performs cunnilingus, rolls hash joints and gulps from bottles of vodka” which led a lawyer to press charges against him for causing a fluctuation in his blood pressure when the novel was excerpted in a Cairo newspaper, even though it had been approved by censors.

Late in a career marked by both triumph and tragedy, the author has written a new book exploring the unsettling case of Emmett Till’s father — and the isolation of black men in America.

Jason Matthews worked at the CIA for more than 30 years. Then he started writing spy novels.

The best-selling young novelist lay dead in a trash-strewn cottage on Ireland’s rugged coast for over a week before she was discovered.

A profile of author William T. Vollmann.

On Edward St. Aubyn’s autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels.

Stolen time with the writer as he neared the end.

A profile of Elizabeth Gilbert, whose bestselling memoir may have sunk her literary career.

How a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.

A profile of thriller writer Harlan Coben and what it takes to succeed as a novelist even when the literary establishment doesn’t acknowledge your existence.

A Romanian-German novelist on being pursued by Ceaucescu’s secret police.

On literary tourism:

Dickens World, in other words, sounded less like a viable business than it did a mockumentary, or a George Saunders short story, or the thought experiment of a radical Marxist seeking to expose the terminal bankruptcy at the heart of consumerism. And yet it was real.

On Gabo and his complicated role in the country of his birth, Colombia.

A visit with the novelist Jim Harrison.