I love that literary fiction so often resists easy categorization. I love that this “genre” is not, really, a genre at all.

The debate between literary fiction and genre fiction is a long-standing one. Genre fiction is accused of being insignificant and shallow while literary fiction is called pretentious and boring. There ...

These are the books that ELLE editors loved most in 2025, including literary fiction, nonfiction, fantasy, science-fiction, ...

Researchers at New York%27s The New School say findings preliminary Subjects read short excerpts and then were tested on reading emotional cues Reading literary fiction %22may change how%2C not just ...

English teachers have long claimed reading books makes you a better person, maybe because their livelihoods have long depended on it. Now they've got proof, courtesy of the science wing. But not just ...

President Obama’s summer reading list is full of literary fiction. So is Richard Branson’s list of the books that influenced him the most. Both icons are exceptionally busy guys. Why do they make time ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Literary fiction is in deep trouble. That's long been suspected by the people who write it, but now it's confirmed, at least in Britain, ...

Your ability to "read" the thoughts and feelings of others could be affected by the kind of fiction you read. That's the conclusion of a study in the journal Science that gave tests of social ...