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.
Giles Blunt talks about trading in his series mystery character for historical fiction in his latest novel, Bad Juliet
The touchstone for Bad Juliet occurred during a vacation Blunt and his wife took to the Adirondacks.
Montreal author Irena Karafilly explores grief and infidelity in her novel Tunes for Dancing Bears
Karafilly's narrative places its two main characters in a situation that puts an extreme stress test on their already fractured marriage.
“Everything is finite”: Saad Omar Khan on Muslim identity, writing as documentation, and his debut novel, Drinking the Ocean
"There's something to be said about the 'you' as a writer when you first start a manuscript and the 'you' as the editor when you finish it."
Fox, the latest novel from Joyce Carol Oates, is a whodunit combined with a psychological dissection of an abhorrent character
Oates has generally carved a bifurcated path in her publication history.
Riding shotgun: Two disaffected teens take a road trip heading north and bad things happen in Vijay Khurana’s debut novel
The discontent and anomie of these characters practically seeps from their pores.
Bindu Suresh discusses puzzle plots, blending genres, and leaving space for the reader to inhabit in her new novel, The Road Between Us
"I very quickly realized that it didn't need to change, I didn't need to make it more traditional."
Hustle and grift: Adnan Khan’s second novel, The Hypebeast, extends and elaborates the themes from his debut
The Hypebeast extends Khan's interrogation of masculinity and machismo in immigrant communities.