Unpopular uprisings: Debut novelist Avik Jain Chatlani charts Peru’s uneasy history of Maoist insurgency
The novel is broken down into four, more or less discrete sections.
Fifty years on, Stephen King’s debut novel still retains its power to shock and disturb
Appearing in 1974, Carrie benefited from the groundswell of interest in literary horror that began with Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby.
Laugh lines: Robert Plunket’s debut novel, long out of print, features one of the most venal, amoral, shallowest protagonists in recent American literature
One characteristic of Elliot that is most telling is also the one that may be least apparent on a cursory read.
A world elsewhere: Balsam Karam’s first novel in English translation is a quietly shattering meditation on absence and loss
Karam has produced a quietly shattering examination of disaffection and anguish.
In The Double Life of Benson Yu, Kevin Chong investigates the potential for art to overcome trauma
Broadly speaking, the novel operates in the mode of metafiction.
In Yara, Tamara Faith Berger addresses fraught questions about sexuality, consent, geopolitics, and religion
Yara represents Berger's most fully realized vision yet.
The Spooky Season: William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist remains one of the most striking, misunderstood 20th century horror novels
Those who view The Exorcist as a frightening and transgressive story about the supernatural may appreciate it on one level, but essentially miss Blatty's point.
Andrew Pyper’s new novel, a short, read-in-one sitting thriller called William, will appear under the pseudonym Mason Coile
"The intent of the book felt very particular."
The Spooky Season: Alison Rumfitt’s second novel examines repression and abjection through the lens of extreme body horror
Brainwyrms is all about the horrors of transphobia
The Spooky Season: The past weighs heavily in a supernaturally inflected first novel from Adriana Chartrand
The more obviously generic elements of the story are less unsettling than the very real horrors of racism and family strife.