In Letters to Little Comrade, Dan K. Woo offers a satirical, ultimately tragic view of womanhood in modern China
The brief novel's overall structure is frequently at odds with the specificity of the narrative that is unfolding.
A new biography of Mickey Spillane makes the case for the late pulp novelist’s ongoing importance
Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction provides a thoughtful overview of the man and his work.
Violet Browne talks about Newfoundland’s influence, fragmenting fiction, and the real-life origins of her debut novel
"I think Quebec is Newfoundland writ large because we do have our own culture and that is so tied up in the language."
In The Fake, Zoe Whittall takes a blisteringly funny look at con artists and the people they target
Very much in the spirit of a good grift, the novel lures us in willingly before snatching all our assurances away from us.
Love and grief are the enduring forces in Violet Browne’s debut novel
This Is the House That Luke Built is a strong first novel, clearly adept at marrying its form and content.
Fable and allegory combine in Victory City, Salman Rushdie’s masterful new novel
Victory City reads like a defiant rebuke to those who work to suppress words and ideas.
Laconic prose and a highly unreliable narrator characterize the first new novel from Bret Easton Ellis in more than a decade
The novel is about nothing so much as the nature of storytelling.
The debut novel by Jessica Johns reclaims Indigenous horror tropes in a story about pervasive familial grief
What is apparent throughout Bad Cree is Johns's facility for dealing with the rocky and tumultuous terrain of familial memory.
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.
Music, magic, madness, and murder combine in Matt Cahill’s sophomore novel, Radioland
"I wanted to approach magic as a sort of organic, biological thing."