Book Review: Swimmer Among the Stars
/Islands of bright, fable-spinning whimsy dot the debut collection of Kanishk Tharoor
Read MoreBook Review: The Weight of This World
/The sudden death of their drug dealer sends two backwoods friends into a spiral of greed and violence in the new novel from David Joy.
Read MoreBook Review: Spaceman of Bohemia
/A lone Czech astronaut on a deep-space mission confronts his past and his fears in this taut, memorable debut novel
Read MoreBook Review: In This Grave Hour
/Even the declaration of war with Germany doesn't stop mysteries from arriving at the doorstep of the indefatigable Maisie Dobbs.
Read MoreBook Review: Gunmetal Gray
/In the latest "Gray Man" novel, Mark Greaney's tough-as-nails title character is on the hunt in Southeast Asia for a vanished Chinese super-hacker.
Read MoreA Year with the Tudors II: A Flash, a Thud, a Crimson Deluge
/Poor innocent Lady Jane Grey has been an ostentatious martyr to the Protestant cause for centuries; a new book tells her brief but familiar life story as continues.
Read MorePhantasm Banged Into Fact
/Under Stalin, Socialist Realism drove the Soviet fabulists into obscurity from which writers like Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky are only now emerging.
Read MoreJubilant Cosmos
/The inimitable and meteoric Margaret Cavendish is the subject of a captivating new historical novel by Danielle Dutton.
Read MoreOnce Upon a Time in Kerala
/A pivotal work of Indian literature, Chemmeen is both a romantic tale of star-crossed lovers and a stinging critique of women’s oppression.
Read More“In Some Bright Place”
/Storyteller George Saunders has written his first novel. Lincoln in Bardo hits many of the old, familiar notes, but there is something new and unexpected as well.
Read MoreLessons from History
/In the new novel from the author of The Historian, a young American woman travels across present-day Bulgaria and delves into the country's dark past.
Read MoreBook Review: Powers of Darkness
/As a revelatory new version shows, the original Icelandic translation of Bram Stoker's Dracula took more than a few liberties with the text ...
Read MoreWest of Lovelorn
/The author of the uproarious debut Radium Baby returns with a surreal and oddly heartfelt riff on the YA genre, set in an Old West that ripples with unreality.
Read MoreBar-Kochba and Old Bolsheviks
/Not easily classified, Paul Goldberg's The Yid is historical but counterfactual, polemical yet absurd. Above all it is a testament to the Jewish experience.
Read MoreMind the Gap
/A new historical thriller hearkens back to the sensation novels of the 1860s, offering up a twisty tale of murder and madness. But can it live up to its predecessors?
Read MoreIt Happened in Two Mills
/A keenly felt nostalgia mixes with themes of race, loneliness, and forgiveness in Jerry Spinelli's latest novel, The Warden's Daughter.
Read MoreThe Magus of Dreams
/Victorian author Thomas DeQuincey will forever be known mainly as the author of the fantastic Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, but a vivid new biography introduces readers to the man behind the masterpiece.
Read MoreStolen From Life: An Interview with Jack Kohl
/Michael Johnson interviews Jack Kohl, a Juilliard-trained pianist who also finds challenge and inspiration in writing fiction.
Read MoreBook Review: True Faith and Allegiance
/A Canadian businessman is more than he seems in the latest big addition to the Tom Clancy fictional universe
Read MoreBook Review: Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
/Poor Simon Lewis has been a human, and he's been a vampire - and now he's a student at the forbidding Shadowhunter Academy, in the latest chapter of Cassandra Clare's ongoing YA fantasy series
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