Phantasm Banged Into Fact
/Under Stalin, Socialist Realism drove the Soviet fabulists into obscurity from which writers like Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky are only now emerging.
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 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 MoreOne More for the Pantheon
/In tense action scenes, stylized dialogue, and rich narrative depth, novelist Ron Hansen tells the story of the Old West's signature outlaw, Billy the Kid.
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 MoreA Slow, Inquiring Narration
/A translation of Peter Handke's latest novel shows the author exploring the essence and possibilites of narration.
Read MoreWorking, Working
/The indefatigable Joyce Carol Oates offers a wide variety of thoughts on books and the literary world in her new collection Soul at the White Heat. Britta Böhler reviews.
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 MoreReindeer Meat and Polo Mints
/Vita Sackville-West's granddaughter gives us an intimate look at seven generations of her famous family.
Read MoreEchoes of Narcissus
/A strikingly original new book explores what happens when our need to understand our experiences exceeds the stories we can tell about them.
Read MoreActually Existing Neoliberalism
/Andrew Brower Latz sums up and recommends Colin Crouch's trenchant critique of neoliberalism.
Read MoreInfinitesimal Jest
/Ian McEwan's latest novel has an ingenious premise--but does it deliver on its promise? Rohan Maitzen reviews Nutshell.
Read MoreBook Review: Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers
/The editors of Vanity Fair magazine delve into their century of writing to serve up dozens of their best writers writing about other writers.
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 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 MoreRead, Write, Love
/When Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri abandons English for Italian, she learns as much about herself as about her new language.
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