The lies have it: Two new debut novels showcase unreliable narrators
Whereas Novack lets her narrator's duplicity bleed through in the way the book is structured, Lucy, the woman at the centre of Taff's novel, tells us she's lying right up front.
A puppet’s life: The debut novel from Hollay Ghadery features a highly unusual narrator
Technically, Ghadery's novel follows the Aristotelian unities of time, space, and action.
“Maybe writers have our own separate hell”: Lindsay Wong talks about villain hitting, corpse marriage, and her debut novel
"Villain hitting is what women do when they have no choice."
Hot for teacher: Jennette McCurdy’s debut novel, about a high-school student’s affair with her creative writing instructor, intends to provoke
McCurdy's method is predicated upon an ironic distance between Waldo's narration and the reader's ability to see through it.
A deal with the Devil: How a ninety-year-old novel from a Nobel Prize winner’s son maps onto our current political moment
Mann's novel closely mines the contradictions in his protagonist's character.
Sixteen books that helped put 2025 in perspective
What our literary output offers is not a vision of perfectibility but an attempt to reckon with our world in all its contradiction, ambiguity, and fractiousness.
A new(ish) hard SF novel mixes questions of ontology and the nature of memory with Lovcraftian cosmic horror
There Is No Antimemetics Division is not technically a new book: it originated as an online serial for the SCP Foundation.
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.