Sarah Layden

The echoes of colonialism and its repercussions are a persistent theme in Dionne Irving’s new short-story collection, The Islands.

Ten years after Indiana University professor Adrian Matejka’s poems first appeared in Poetry magazine, he takes the helm as the historic publication’s first Black editor. Here, he talks about growing up poor on the east side, his love of Star Trek, and what makes poetry relevant in the internet age.

After releasing her first novel to national acclaim last year, the YA author returns with a new queer love story.

In his new book, “Canary in the Coal Mine,” William Cooke recounts the opioid epidemic that led to the infamous 2015 outbreak.

The Bloomington mystery writer is rolling with a new novel and a slate of Hollywood projects.

A Bloomington author’s new book on the presidents’ autobiographies has our vote.

The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies once may have seemed, well, like science fiction. Yet the icy reception the genre once received from critics and academics has begun to thaw.

“Ta-Nehisi Coates emailed me and told me he had a crazy idea and, well, he had a crazy idea.”

“It’s important to me to identify as a gay writer, because when I was 16 growing up in Kentucky, gay books saved my life. So many gay characters in books are stripped of dignity.”

Sometimes literary archives house hidden gems.

They helped me to quit feeling sorry for myself for my own loss. These women write. They are workhorses.

“The Indianapolis of Does Not Love is the Indianapolis of my memory: strange, flat, a little lonely, filled with secrets that are just beyond one’s sight.”

“I refuse to sit quietly in the margins and only speak when I can ‘calmly’ educate and teach,” she says.