A.S. Byatt

More than Cosplaying the Past: Andrea Barrett on Learning to Write Fresh Historical Fiction

The Author of “Dust and Light” Shares Her Formative Influences for Using Fact in Fiction

 
By Andrea Barrett  February 26, 2025
The Hub

A. S. Byatt, author of Possession, has died at the age of 87.

By Dan Sheehan  November 17, 2023
Archives

Archival Romance: On Finding Love in the Papers of an Obscure Medieval Poet

By Katherine Churchill  November 15, 2023
The Hub

20 new paperbacks hitting shelves this September.

By Katie Yee  September 1, 2022
Adaptations

Three Thousand Years of Longing Grants Few Wishes

By Jonathan Russell Clark  August 30, 2022
The Hub

6 fictional pools to dive into.

By Katie Yee  July 14, 2022
Mother-Writers

“Complete Attention to Two Things at Once.” On the Women Who Rewrote the Motherhood Plot

By Julie Phillips  April 26, 2022
The Hub

11 new books to be grateful for this week.

By Katie Yee  November 23, 2021
Recommended Reading

“Magnificent Hybrids.” David Mitchell on the Alchemy of A.S. Byatt’s Stories

By David Mitchell  November 23, 2021
5 Questions

Writer’s Block? Maggie Shipstead Befriends It Instead of Fighting It

By Literary Hub  May 7, 2021
What to Read Next

The 50 Best Contemporary Novels Over 500 Pages

By Emily Temple  April 9, 2020
Reading Lists

All of Our Good—and All of Our Evil—Lies in Wait in the Archives

By Sara Sligar  November 7, 2019
Happy Birthday Iris Murdoch

A.S. Byatt on Iris Murdoch’s
The Bell

By A. S. Byatt  July 15, 2019
Feature

Dear Reader,5 Recommended Epistolary Novels

By Shelley Wood  March 28, 2019
What to Read

A Campus Novel for Every Kind of Back to Schooler

By Emily Temple  August 30, 2018
Feature

25 Legendary Literary Feuds, Ranked

By Emily Temple  February 16, 2018
Essay

Why Does Anyone Write?

By Alice Adams  June 29, 2016

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