Thinking in Quotations
/On its schematic blueprints, the latest book by noted literary polymath Alberto Manguel is "about" Dante's Divine Comedy - but as Robert Minto discovers, this author is at his best when he's digressing.
Read MoreUnconditional
/An Orwellian dystopia, a deposed humanity, and a cat passionately in love with a dog - Justin Hickey reviews Robert Repino's fiendishly clever novel Mort(e).
Read MoreRuins, Mourning, and Cigarettes
/Set in the precarious territory between fiction and history, Nicolas Rothwell’s beautiful, haunting Belomor explores the ways storytelling serves as an impetus for self-discovery.
Read MoreRealism and Russia’s Fate
/The star translating team of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (aided this time by Richard Nelson) translate Turgenev's A Month in the Country, with predictably disruptive results. Jack Hanson reviews.
Read MoreShallow Sargasso Sea
/Can you improve on a classic? A new novel retells George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda — but much more is lost than gained in the attempt.
Read MoreBook Review: We All Looked Up
/The high school students in Tommy Wallach's fantastic debut face more than graduation and an uncertain job market: they face an honest-to-gosh killer asteroid
Read MoreBook Review: The Architect's Apprentice
/A young boy and his gorgeous white elephant become apprenticed to the greatest architect of the Ottoman Empire in this stunning new novel by the author of "The Bastard of Istanbul"
Read MoreBook Review: Duplicity
/In N. K. Traver's exciting debut, a young cyber-hacker finds his life steadily being commandeered - but his own reflection in the mirror.
Read MoreBook Review: The Fifth Heart
/In Dan Simmons' latest fantastic novel, Henry James finds himself teamed up with fiction's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, in order to solve a very real - and very heartbreaking - mystery.
Read MoreBook Review: The Red Queen
/In a dystopian future, a plucky young woman from a poor village suddenly finds herself at the heart of the corrupt power system and the focal point of a rebellion in "The Hunger Ga-" um, in Victoria Aveyard's "The Red Queen."
Read MoreBook Review: The Tapestry
/Joanna Stafford - niece of an executed man and distant cousin to King Henry VIII - is called to court, where she immediately becomes the focal point of deadly intrigues
Read MoreBook Review: John the Pupil
/Three impressionable young 13th-century Franciscans embark on an improbably odyssey to bring a momentous manuscript to the Pope
Read MoreBook Review: The Violent Century
/In a world very much like our own, super-powered clandestine operatives vie with each other on missions to save or destroy humanity
Read MoreBook Review: Barbarian Spring
/A businessman is on a trip to new-money Tunisia when the world's economy goes into meltdown...
Read MoreInheritance of Anger
/The great Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa claims he became a writer in order to annoy his father; his new novel takes up this age-old theme of the strife between fathers and sons.
Read MoreKafka with a Happy Ending
/As we should expect from someone whose previous work is both experimental and kinky, Miranda July has written a first novel that refuses to play by the rules.
Read MorePros and Con Men
/Despite his iconic status today, in the 19th century Sherlock Holmes was neither the alpha nor the omega of crime fighters: a fascinating new book introduces us to his many contemporaries.
Read MoreLeviathan in the Offing
/Ron Howard's adaptation of Nathaniel Philbrick's bestselling In the Heart of the Sea will soon appear, but even the trailers raise rich questions: Why does this story still have the power to fascinate? A Moby-Dick fan ponders.
Read MoreFlail and Thrash
/When we say of someone that they died too early, does this posit that there is a perfect time? How does the meaning of a life change the longer it’s lived. Jenny Erpenbeck’s new novel End of Days explores some answers.
Read MoreThe Familiar is Strange
/Stalking the pages of Thomas Pierce's debut story collection, where the surreal shares quarters with the ordinary, are dwarf mammoths, genetically modified guard dogs, baby Pippin monkeys, and a parakeet named Magnificent.
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