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.
“This will cut down on my reading”: The three types of books Dorothy Parker never wanted to encounter again
"When the author gives me a scene of wild young passion, then I can no longer slog through the immediate follow-up of a tender description of the bendings of wheat in the breeze."
Albert Woodfox, author and activist who spent more than four decades in solitary confinement, dies at 75
On his release, Woodfox, who staunchly maintained his innocence in the murder he was accused of, dedicated himself to educating others about systemic racism.
“A high and beautiful wave”: Revisiting the savage journey of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas fifty years later
Thompson's wild, violent, funny, anarchic book chronicles a motorcycle derby, an extended drug binge, and – most significantly – the corrosion of the American Dream.