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.