An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.

You walk into a bottle store, tasked with buying a bottle of wine for dinner. How are you choosing from the selection? As the ...

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

With the recent release of Onyx Storm, 2025 is already off to a great start for fantasyreaders — and February continues to ...