Book Review: The Girl on the Train
/In this New York Times bestseller, a hapless woman spots a mysterious event from the window of her commuter train and is soon caught up in a police investigation.
Read MoreBook Review: Hereward - The End of Days
/Driven into hiding by the victorious forces of William the Conqueror, the heroic Hereward the Wake and his band of freedom fighters must struggle to survive
Read MoreBook Review: The Accidental Empress
/A strong-willed Bavarian princess captures the eye of the young Austro-Hungarian emperor in Allison Pataki's opulent new historical novel. Steve Donoghue reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: The Just City
/In Jo Walton's latest novel, the "just city" of Plato's Republic is brought to life via Greek gods, robots, and a little discreet time travel
Read MoreBook Review: Kings and Emperors
/In Dewey Lambdin's latest rousing Alan Lewrie adventure, our dashing hero sees action off the coast of a Spain imperiled by Napoleon
Read MoreBook Review: A Darker Shade of Magic
/In V. E. Schwab's new fantasy novel, a young man can travel between a string of alternate-reality Londons
Read MoreBook Review: Making Nice
/In Matt Sumell's debut, his main character manages to alienate every other person in the book, often by punching them.
Read MoreBook Review: Amherst
/When a 21st-century woman travels to the hometown of Emily Dickinson, she finds herself caught between a passionate present and a past far more human than she imagined
Read MoreBook Review: The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac
/In the very engaging latest from Sharma Shields, one family has a very unusual encounter with the legendary Bigfoot
Read MoreBook Review: The Great Zoo of China
/A small group of Americans visit a super-secret Chinese nature-park with a very unusual star attraction.
Read MoreBook Review: Turtle Face and Beyond
/The author of "Dogwalker" returns with a new collection of interlinked short stories that revel in their own straight-faced absurdity
Read MoreBook Review: Unbecoming
/In this arresting debut, a young woman working in Paris is hiding from her past - and she worries that the old friends she betrayed are hunting her.
Read MoreOutrunning the Constables
/To shut down his internal censors, Karl Ove Knausgaard wrote My Struggle at the astounding rate of over a thousand pages a year. The result is fiction that is vibrantly alive.
Read More"Why, It's I!"
/Any new translation of a classic like Anna Kareninainevitably raises an awkward question: what was wrong with all the old translations? Debut writer Zach Rabiroff takes it line-by-line
Read MoreThe Buildup of Erasure
/Claudia Rankine articulates the truths of the black experience so poignantly in her celebrated collection Citizen by putting them, paradoxically, both plainly and artfully.
Read MoreBook Review: The extraordinary journey of the fakir who got trapped in an Ikea wardrobe
/A slim picaresque novel that was a runaway bestseller in France gets a stylish English-language translation
Read MoreBook Review: Galapagos Regained
/A true believer in the tenets of Darwinism in the 19th Century goes on what amounts to a pilgrimage to that great Darwinian destination, the Galapagos Islands, in James Morrow's glowing new novel
Read MoreBook Review: White Plague
/Only one man can possibly save a plague- and fire-stricken sub that's burning and adrift at the top of the world ...
Read MoreBook Review: Sympathy for the Devil
/Michael Mewshaw comes not to praise Gore Vidal but to bury him in this new memoir of a friendship that did not outlast Mr. Vidal's funeral.
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