Livia Cable seems like a woman who has always played it safe. She lives on a farm in Tennessee, in the area where she grew up ...

Barbara Kingsolver's new novel, “Partita,” explores the repercussions of a life-changing love affair and the complex ...

“My mission, if I have one, is to make us visible to ourselves,” says the ‘Demon Copperhead’ and ‘Partita’ author ...

In 'Partita,' Pulitzer Prize-winning Barbara Kingsolver weaves classical music and family tragedy into an intimate, resonant ...

Kingsolver’s latest “masterpiece” asks the question: What if?

The two-time Oprah's Book Club author reflects on first love, hard-won wisdom, the pressure of following ‘Demon Copperhead,’ and why she feels she's finally in her creative prime.

Her recent work, including her latest, Partita, is overly concerned with defending the South instead of writing for it.

The October Read With Jenna book club pick for October 2026 is Partita by Barbara Kingsolver.

Barbara Kingsolver always struggles with beginnings. “I write probably one hundred pages to get to page one of any novel,” she told me recently. “Not all at once—like, eight or nine pages a day. And ...

The sex writing threatens to throw the novel off-kilter, but there are rich rewards in this tale of music and middle-aged compromises ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Kingsolver's newest novel, Partita, released yesterday, and it's already getting rave ...

A dazzling follow-up to ‘Demon Copperhead’ plunges us into the grief, yearning and disappointments of a once-promising ...