A Kind of Humanity: Herzog at 50
/It's been half a century since the appearance of Saul Bellow's seminal novel Herzog - Jack Hanson revisits the work to see how Bellow's various machinations have held up over time.
Read MoreCall It His Soul
/Christopher Beha's new novel Arts and Entertainments aims to be that weirdest of all things: a serious, even elegant, book about ... reality television. As our reviewer reports, the oddity is that it was even attempted, and the wonder is that it succeeds so well.
Read MoreA Walker in the City
/In the world of Julie Hayden's stories, the contingency of all experience, let alone of literary creation and reputation, is inescapable.
Read MoreBook Review: The Dog
/A fascinating debut collection of short stories set in modern China
Read MoreThe Very Edge of Fiction
/Ben Lerner has followed his breakout novel Leaving the Atocha Station with a metafictional tale of a second-time novelist trying to throw a book together. Is it more than a game?
Read MoreSocrates Offside
/What place do deep questions about the meaning of life have in our technological age? Is philosophy more important than ever?
Read MoreA Picture Book
/Cover art from Omni, the new-age science mag of yore, is now a coffee table book: Giger, Frazetta, and Grant Wood are all here, but something crucial has been left out.
Read MoreTo Brave the Swollen Waters
/Powerful South Korean writer Kyung-sook Shin's second novel to be translated into English tells a touchingly human tale set in a world which, for most of her Western readers, could scarcely be more alien.
Read MoreDream-to-Desk
/Michael Cunningham's beautiful new novel The Snow Queen follows the wisdom of fairy tales: its revelations occur at dusk, because the hour of despair is the most fertile of the day.
Read MoreTitle Menu: 12 Hot Summer Reads
/It's summer at last, and you won't find any relief from the heat in our editors' round-up of the hottest books they know.
Read MoreWilson 2.0
/Daniel Wilson's first book, Robopocalypse was a straightforward adventure story about robots rising up against their human makers. His new book takes that simple premise and expands on it in complex and timely ways.
Read MorePassing Roncesvalles Again
/The new Scribner "Hemingway Library" edition of The Sun Also Rises offers annotations, rough drafts, and alternate line-edits - but how much light does it shed on its "near-perfect work of fiction"?
Read MoreTheir Bloody Instruments
/A ticking clock hangs ominously over every page of Craig DiLouie's genuinely creepy new horror novel, filled with beings who aren't quite zombies and not quite vampires. Our resident horror maven Deirdre Crimmins tells us all about it.
Read MoreTitle Menu: 8 More George Eliot Novels
/Middlemarch is all the rage now – as it should be! But what if you’ve already read not just George Eliot’s masterpiece but all of her novels? Do not despair: these eight books will bring you close to her in spirit.
Read MoreThe Sun Was Bad
/Rusty Barnes' debut novel Reckoning is both a hardbitten Appalachia noir and tender coming of age tale, both real art and real fun.
Read MoreCoral Waxwork Classic
/Rjurik Davidson's stunning debut - an epic of espionage, magic, and beasts migrated out of mythology - isn't the sixth in a series, or the tenth, or the fifteenth; it's that rare thing in the genre: a stand-alone novel
Read MoreAbsent Friends: Lean Years of Plenty
/For a little over two years, shortly before she died, short story master Katherine Mansfield wrote a weekly book review column. Those pieces not only shed light on Mansfield's particular slant of genius, but have much to say about the embattled art of reviewing.
Read MoreThe 5 Commandments
/Major Kolt "Racer" Raynor doesn't salute the U.S. flag - it salutes him. He punches bad guys so hard their grandkids are born with bruises. He garrotted a terrorist using a string made from his own eyelashes. He stars in Dalton Fury's action novel - and if you don't read the book, he'll know.
Read MoreThe Important Difference
/Is it really the immigrant writer’s job to represent third-world suffering for the sake of first-world catharsis? In All Our Names, Dinaw Mengestu resists the pressure to substitute autoethnography for art.
Read MoreTitle Menu: 8 books where bad decisions make good protagonists
/Characters never go wrong when their poor life choices make for fascinating reading. Kathleen Rooney supplies us with eight unmissable examples.
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