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Displaying all articles tagged:
Novelists
book review
Feb. 27, 2024
In
Wandering Stars
, Tommy Orange Writes a New Secret History
The author’s second novel, after the dazzling
There There
, follows family members who are inheriting more than they know.
By
Emma Alpern
books
Jan. 30, 2024
Sarah J. Maas Is the Mortal Queen of Faerie Smut
Her massively popular series, including “A Court of Thorns and Roses,” mix fantasy lore with soft-core romance — and a whole lot of trauma.
By
Kathryn VanArendonk
encounter
Jan. 16, 2024
Venita Blackburn’s First Novel Runs on Denial
With her book
Dead in Long Beach, California
, she takes on the kind of grief that can lead to deception.
By
Mariella Rudi
encounter
Nov. 14, 2023
In Lexi Freiman’s Books, It’s So Easy to Be Wrong
Her novel
The Book of Ayn
is about a newly canceled person in a toxic relationship with her ego.
By
Emma Alpern
book review
Oct. 26, 2023
In Alex Pheby’s Novel
Malarkoi
, God Is Dead and Objects Are Alive
The second book in Alex Pheby’s trilogy
Cities of the Weft
spins fantasy tropes in strange and visceral new dimensions.
By
Emma Alpern
encounter
Oct. 16, 2023
Marie NDiaye Gets Under the Skin
The French writer’s refusal to overexplain makes her books even more unsettling.
By
Jasmine Vojdani
encounter
July 11, 2023
Andrew Lipstein Tries To Be Good
In his novel
The Vegan
, he imagines a finance guy desperate to atone — and not for the sins you’d think.
By
Emma Alpern
profile
Apr. 25, 2023
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Is Asking the Hard Questions
After his first book was a hit, he decided to use his follow-up to tackle the most pressing issue he could think of: the US prison system.
By
Mallika Rao
fall preview
Aug. 31, 2022
How Gwendoline Riley Makes Words Fail
In her brutally funny novels
My Phantoms
and
First Love
, conversation only makes people feel more alone.
By
Rachel Connolly
encounter
June 2, 2022
‘Have You Read
Nevada
?’
Imogen Binnie’s first novel became a staple of trans literature. Nine years and one reissue later, how much has the culture changed?
By
Harron Walker
book review
May 20, 2022
Either/Or
Is a Coming-of-Age Story That Moves at the Speed of Thought
Either/Or
is a sequel to Elif Batuman’s campus novel
The Idiot
— and it reveals what she’s been up to this whole time.
By
Sarah Chihaya
book review
May 19, 2022
In These Novels of Tech Dystopia, Memories Belong to the Cloud
Jennifer Egan’s
The Candy House
and Vauhini Vara’s
The Immortal King Rao
are two very different books with a troubling shared prediction.
By
Mallika Rao
profile
May 19, 2022
‘The Goal Is to Get As Bright As Possible’
For the highly prolific writer Akwaeke Emezi, literary success is a spiritual calling.
By
Maya Binyam
perfil
May 9, 2022
Fernanda Melchor y la tragedia del machismo
Con historias inspiradas en el crimen, la novelista arroja luz a los rincones oscuros de la masculinidad.
By
Max Pearl
profile
May 2, 2022
Fernanda Melchor Writes Tragic Machismo
In her crime-inspired novels, male fear and desire are two sides of the same coin.
By
Max Pearl
book review
Feb. 16, 2022
Sheila Heti Does It the Artist’s Way
Her novel
Pure Colour
is strange, even incoherent. But it also has the power to make you feel better.
By
Jennifer Wilson
profile
Jan. 3, 2022
Sean Thor Conroe, Protégé
Before the writer could publish his first novel,
Fuccboi
, he lost his fiercest advocate. Now he’s facing the hype alone.
By
Molly Osberg
book review
Nov. 10, 2021
The Sentence
Shows the Downside of Urgency
Louise Erdrich’s novel takes on the 2020 protests — and draws conclusions that feel dated already.
By
Jennifer Wilson
book review
Oct. 28, 2021
Kwon Yeo-sun’s ‘Lemon’ Is a Murder Mystery That Refuses to Be Solved
The novel by Kwon Yeo-sun tracks the aftermath of a teen girl’s murder, with three very unreliable narrators.
By
Arianna Rebolini
book review
Sept. 30, 2021
A So-So Franzen Novel Is Still Better Than Most Books. That Said …
In
Crossroads
, too many boring characters are boring in the same way.
By
Molly Young
a long talk
Sept. 30, 2021
Jonathan Franzen Thinks People Can Change
Even if, as his book
Crossroads
suggests, it’s nearly impossible to make it stick.
By
Merve Emre
book review
Sept. 16, 2021
In Chang-rae Lee’s
My Year Abroad
, There’s No Escaping the Self
The novel by Chang-rae Lee turns a coming-of-age trope into something much more bleak and strange.
By
Jennifer Schaffer-Goddard
profile
Sept. 14, 2021
Hearing Things With Ruth Ozeki
Her latest novel teems with voices — most of them belonging to what she might call “nonhuman persons.”
By
Helen Shaw
radical grief
Sept. 10, 2021
adrienne maree brown Says ‘All Organizing Is Science Fiction’
The writer on
Grievers
, her speculative novel about Black grief during a pandemic — which she started writing years before COVID-19.
As told to
Mary Retta
a long talk
Sept. 9, 2021
How Colson Whitehead Pulled It Off
His new novel is
Harlem Shuffle
, a very New York story about life in the gray area between legitimacy and hustle.
By
Craig Jenkins
book review
Sept. 3, 2021
Sally Rooney in the Struggle
Beautiful World, Where Are You
is both her clearest attempt to wrestle with big ideas and her least readable novel.
By
Jane Hu
fall preview 2021
Aug. 31, 2021
The Party Girl’s Revenge
Marlowe Granados’s debut novel,
Happy Hour
, is a picaresque for the glamorous and broke.
By
Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
fall preview 2021
Aug. 31, 2021
Knausgaard Debarks for a New Frontier: Genre Fiction
Norway’s most famous self-exile talks to Torrey Peters about his horror-inspired novel
The Morning Star
.
By
Torrey Peters
fall preview 2021
Aug. 31, 2021
40 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Fall
Including Sally Rooney, Colson Whitehead, Tiphanie Yanique, and, yes, Jonathan Franzen.
encounter
July 12, 2021
The Untidy Tales of Katie Kitamura
Her hypnotic new novel asks: What happens when your main character is a passive witness to her own life?
By
Molly Young
profile
June 7, 2021
Rivka Galchen’s Unsettling Powers
Her new novel is about a vicious, real-life witch hunt—and she somehow still managed to make it funny.
By
Hillary Kelly
summer 2021
May 25, 2021
35 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Summer
Treat yourself to new reads from Akwaeke Emezi, Rivka Galchen, Paula Hawkins, and more.
book review
Mar. 6, 2021
In
Klara and the Sun
, Artificial Intelligence Meets Real Sacrifice
Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel proposes a world where the machines never revolt.
By
Helen Shaw
entanglements
Jan. 29, 2021
Brontez Purnell, Author of
100 Boyfriends
, on Conjuring the Ghost an Ex
The daddy of the Oakland DIY scene has a new novel about the afterlives of intimacy.
By
Saam Niami
how mysterious!
Oct. 3, 2018
Mystery Writer Tana French’s Tips for Crafting a Red Herring
How the author of
In the Woods
and
The Witch Elm
leads the reader down the wrong trail.
By
Tana French
As told to
Lila Shapiro
obit
Aug. 4, 2008
Russian Novelist Aleksander Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89
The writer opened Western eyes to Communist oppression — and, in turn, got his own character on ‘Seinfeld.’ A life well lived, indeed.