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Evan S. Connell, an old American master, and Claire Keegan, a young Irish prodigy, both have new books of short fiction this summer — and both are worth picking up.

Writer Charles D'Ambrosio's The Dead Fish Museum reveal the dark sides of America, from psychiatric wards of Manhattan to the shores of Puget Sound. The collection of eight stories comes 10 years after D'Ambrosio's debut, The Point.

Navasky's journalism and influence were a clarion call for the left.

Henry Morgenthau III had a long and eventful life even before he started writing poetry in his 90s. Now, at age 100, he's promoting his first poetry collection, called A Sunday in Purgatory.

This week, the Federal Reserve ended the quantitative easing program. Author John Lanchester says Anthony Trollope's 19th century novel The Way We Live Now clarifies the current financial situation.

Each writer will receive $50,000 to help support their craft — one of largest awards granted to new authors.

Claire Messud's The Woman Upstairs is about a lonely third-grade teacher who falls in love with the family of one of her students. Reviewer Lionel Shriver says the book so bursts with rage and desire that it barely squeezes between hard covers.

The judges of the annual prize for female and nonbinary writers praised Lubrin's debut short story collection, Code Noir, for breaking "new ground in short fiction." The award comes with $150K.

Poet and novelist Herta Muller won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009 — the year her German-language novel was first published. Now it's been published in English as The Hunger Angel.

The powerful quake left at least two people dead on the Greek resort island of Kos during peak tourist season.