Lucy Worsley’s new biography of Agatha Christie provides gossipy details of the writer’s life but is light on the work
Worsely resolutely refuses to provide any sustained analysis of the books themselves.
Deepti Kapoor’s second novel is a high-octane gangster thriller set in India
Kapoor plays with the scale of her novel, alternately providing an epic canvas of corruption in political and business life and zooming in on the personal travails of her main characters.
Sounding the alarm: What two classic 20th century science fiction novels have to say about our world in 2023
Both books portray societies in which strife and discord have been replaced with a kind of analgesic conformity, but the social cohesion comes at a stiff price.
Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias’s classic dictator novel Mr. President has uncomfortable resonances in our modern era
Rather than a work of prototypical magic realism, El Señor Presidente is more reflective of straightforward modernism.
Madness, mystery, and mathematics combine in a pair of existential inquisitions by Cormac McCarthy
Uncertainty, both in its quantum nature and its narrative manifestation, is all over these two volumes.
Alan Moore stretches the generic definition of a story with a single volume that comprises eight short(er) pieces and one full-on novel
Its generic inappropriateness notwithstanding, "What We Can Know About Thunderman" is worth the price of the current volume all on its own.
A quartet of novellas demonstrates the quirky versatility of the form
Metafiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy are among the genres represented in these brief and intriguing works.
In a slim and idiosyncratic mix of essay and memoir, Haruki Murakami muses on the writing life
All of the essays find Murakami writing in a first-person, confessional style about matters that interest him as a novelist.
Carmen Callil – publisher, author, and feminist firebrand – dies at age 84
"All of us in publishing, and all of us who love books, owe a debt to her publishing genius," says Bea Hemming of Jonathan Cape.
Feral men and murderous TERFs: the post-apocalyptic world of Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt
This gruesome, often darkly funny novel manages to put a new spin on its central metaphor.