Maria Reva’s debut novel, Endling, is a nested narrative that freely incorporates fact and fiction
Reva knows that the happy ending she provides midway through the novel is not only fiction, but a betrayal of the truth.
Souvankham Thammavongsa wins the 2025 Giller Prize for her debut novel
The novel was chosen by a jury composed of former Giller nominees Dionne Irving, Loghan Paylor, and Deepa Rajagopalan.
Michael Wehunt’s smart and creepy metafictional horror novel provides equal parts fear and pathos
Wehunt peppers his story with observations about the horror genre and how it operates.
Going viral: A group of isolated scientists encounters a strange “specimen” in Sarah Gailey’s Spread Me
What Gailey has produced owes less to Ridley Scott's Alien than to John Carpenter's 1982 movie The Thing.
Night riders: Keith Rosson’s latest is a vampire novel crossed with a bloody revenge thriller
The lexicon of organized crime is one way in which Rosson blurs the distinction between horror and crime genres in his book.
Wrath of God: CJ Leede imagines the end of the world via a plague and a sect of murderous Catholic crusaders
American Rapture is a blood-soaked, ultra-violent allegory about the hypocrisies and inhumanity of our current political moment.
Gas, food, mayhem: Nat Cassidy unleashes a tight, brutal reading experience in his novella Rest Stop
Those who prefer their horror straight up, with no chaser, should definitely check this one out.
Storming the castle: Christine Estima’s novel rescues the figure of Milena Jesenská, inamorata of Franz Kafka, from the mist of history
Estima fills in the gaps in a richly imagined work of historical fiction.
Canadian novelist David Szalay joins Kiran Desai and Andrew Miller on the shortlist for the 2025 Booker Prize
Also shortlisted this year is Kiran Desai for The Loneliness of Sunny and Sonia.
Russell Smith’s new novel examines what happens when a wellness writer hooks up with an incel
Like Nabokov, Smith tackles difficult and potentially divisive sexual material.