A Slow, Inquiring Narration
/A translation of Peter Handke's latest novel shows the author exploring the essence and possibilites of narration.
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/A smart and gripping new novel brings the Salem Witch mania to life.
Read MorePassion Rules the World
/Boris Dralyuk's new translation of Isaac Babel's Odessa Tales brings its Jewish gangsters back to more vibrant life than ever. Robert Minto reviews.
Read MoreInfinitesimal Jest
/Ian McEwan's latest novel has an ingenious premise--but does it deliver on its promise? Rohan Maitzen reviews Nutshell.
Read MoreStrange and Dark As It Is
/Fantasy author Rjurik Davidson returns with the second novel of minotaurs, magic, and political unrest. Justin Hickey reviews The Stars Askew.
Read MoreWorlds Undone
/The NYRB Classics reprints three seminal novels by the elusive author who wrote under the pen name Henry Green. Jack Hanson reviews.
Read MoreThe bowl that one fills and fills
/What has not already been written about Virginia Woolf? A new critical biography offers ideas about how to read both her work and her life.
Read MoreBodies in Trouble
/A new novel about a notorious Viennese clinic aims to do justice to the lives of those the Nazis declared were utterly without value.
Read MoreBook Review: Red Right Hand
/The hitman who kills hitmen is contracted by a semi-rogue FBI agent to take on a particularly delicate - and dangerous - side-mission
Read MoreLight Puppets
/In Moonstone, Icelandic author Sjón tells a story of 1918 Iceland through the longings and alienation of a sixteen-year-old orphan named Mani. Robert Minto reviews.
Read MoreIrritated by the Noise of Kathmandu
/The stories in debut author Alexander Weinstein's collection portray a near-future world of intrusive personal techology - a world that every day resembles our own a bit more. Dalton Gentry reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
/A crippled young man in a forgotten hospital has armored himself against the rotten hand he's drawn in life - until he falls in love with a new patient.
Read MoreBook Review: The Nix
/The life of the main character in Nathan Hill's stunning debut novel is turned upside-down when the madwoman on the nightly news turns out to be his mother.
Read MoreNeither Entirely Real Nor Imagined
/"The Wonderments" allow the hero of Bill Broun's spellbinding debut novel Night of the Animals to talk to the animals in Regent's Park Zoo. Justin Hickey reviews.
Read MoreThe Limits of Courage: 50th Anniversary of Death and the Dervish
/2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Mesa Selimovic's modernist Yugoslavian masterpiece; Pedja Jurisic looks at Death and the Dervish today.
Read MoreKeeping the Faith, Keeping the Feast
/The masterful essays in Gregory Wolfe's The Operation of Grace range from Mel Gibson to Thomas More, from Annie Dillard to Christopher Hitchens. Martyn Wendell Jones reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: The Castle of Kings
/A strong-willed young woman and a visionary young man navigate a 16th-century Germany in chaos in order to find their destiny
Read MoreSummer Reading 2016 - Literary Journeys
/This year in our annual Summer Reading feature, our writers recommend favorite books that take us on journeys - through time, around the world, or just out of ourselves.
Read MoreTwilight Cowboys
/Once upon a time, Westerns were a staple of American fiction. Now they've all but disappeared. Zach Rabiroff asks why cowboys rode off into the sunset.
Read MoreAt Play with Clay
/Ever since Mary Shelley wrote her weird masterpiece two centuries ago, it's been impossible to keep a good monster down. In the Shadow of Frankenstein gives readers two dozen pastiches that keep the Creature alive.
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