Five strangers are waiting on a train platform. When the train arrives in five minutes, one of them will die. That's the premise of Ilona Bannister's novel, "Five." She talks to NPR's Ayesha Rascoe.

Why the latest literary trend favors short, punchy prose over epics. Novelists Anika Jade Levy and Jenny Offill weigh in.

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Its publisher, Hachette, will not release the novel in the United States and will discontinue its U.K. edition, citing its commitment to “original creative expression and storytelling.” By Alexandra ...