Hunger Pangs
/Roxane Gay's new memoir about food, trauma, and her "unruly body" is often as difficult to read as it must have been to write.
Read MoreManhattan Picaresque
/A mysterious, youthful Englishman arrives in the New World and exposes an underbelly of economic uncertainty, political tension, and the impossible romantic yearnings of its diverse and complex inhabitants.
Read MoreBook Review: The White Road
/The quest for social media click-traffic leads a young video-maker to the heights of the world's deadliest mountain in Sarah Lotz's new thriller.
Read MoreThe Phantom of Constancy
/The 1930 novel Rapture, by the Russian avant-garde artist Iliazd, is a fast-paced, darkly funny spin on the adventure genre.
Read MoreThe Most Happy
/As she did with Katherine of Aragon, Alison Weir gives Anne Boleyn the saintly treatment in her new novel. But does Anne, like Katherine, deserve it?
Read MoreGood Grief: In Memory of Denis Johnson
/Denis Johnson died last month, but we have his ten novels and his legacy: the inclination to see the great beauty only afforded by the stripping away of joy.
Read MoreAn “Untold” Story?
/Unlike Jean Rhys, Sarah Shoemaker tells Mr. Rochester's side of Jane Eyre with respect and fidelity to Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece. But is that the problem?
Read MoreDown the Rabbit Hole
/An innovative new book on Lewis Carroll and space avoids spoiling the fun by explaining everything too literally, but still offers new insights on his playful oeuvre.
Read MoreI Am a Woman’s Life
/George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda nods to Pride and Prejudice then takes us to dark places Austen’s famously “light, and bright, and sparkling” novel would never go.
Read MoreBook Review: Salt Houses
/A Palestinian family is driven from one place of exile to another in this memorable debut novel.
Read MoreBook Review: The End of Eddy
/The English-language translation of a French novella about the everyday trials and setbacks of growing up gay
Read MoreBook Review: The Dinner Party and Other Stories
/The latest volume from Joshua Ferris collects eleven of his punchy and evocative short stories.
Read MoreThe Book Beneath the Noise
/Both a new TV adaptation and the alarmingly dystopian trend of current political news have brought new attention to Margaret Atwood's classic The Handmaid's Tale, but underneath the hype there's the book itself.
Read MoreBook Review: Dogs of War
/Killer robot dogs playing fetch with weapons of mass destruction! Killer 'smart' machines the size of a grain of sand! And every last little thing weaponized! It's the latest Joe Ledger novel.
Read MoreThe Mother of Woman
/Zadie Smith's latest novel returns her to the familiar subject of multicultural London--but this time her dance moves are new and her mood seems darker.
Read MoreMemory Problems
/Zachary Mason's visionary new novel set in a bleak future features a villainous artificial intelligence intent on stealing memories from the people most intent on keeping them.
Read MoreDancing Through the Depression
/Depression-era Montreal is the setting for Heather O'Neill's much-lauded novel, which follows the lives of two orphans, a piano prodigy and a superb dancer.
Read MorePepys & Co.
/In his latest installment of the Time Traveler’s Guide series, Ian Mortimer bids farewell to the last traces of the medieval world and embraces the coming tide of modernity.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Loyalty is a distorting mirror”
/One new mystery takes place in a picturesque little English village, the other on an island in the Venetian lagoon - but there are murders in both places, and sleuths to solve them.
Read MoreOver the Top
/An ambitious new novel joins a long and illustrious parade of writers in telling the story of WWI as a tale of innocence lost.
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