A Shining
Jon Fosse, the 2023 Nobel Laureate best known for [...]
Tremor
About halfway through Teju Cole’s new novel, Tremor, the [...]
The Fraud
Zadie Smith’s novels measure the weight of history as it [...]
Brooklyn Crime Novel
“It was time to leave Brooklyn in a literary sense [...]
Salvaging Islands
Ireland has a long history of island stories drawn [...]
The Guest Lecture
An original premise drives The Guest Lecture (Grove Press, [...]
Stone and Shadow
Burhan Sönmez, the novelist and president of PEN International, [...]
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
Like a Möbius strip or an Escher drawing, Lorrie [...]
Hit Parade of Tears
After Japan’s surrender in World War II, Allied troops [...]
The Grand Prize
They disturbed Hattie—those glassed botanical engravings hung opposite the [...]