A recently discovered, fragmentary novel by the notorious French author Céline raises questions about how – or if – to publish such posthumous work
War is potent if only for its concentration.
The debut novel from Montreal author Nour Abi-Nakhoul is an hallucinatory descent into existential horror
Ontological queries pervade the novel, which is, at least in part, about the inability to outrun violence or harmful past experience.
The new novel from Joyce Carol Oates is a Boschian descent into the mind of a deluded surgeon who runs a New Jersey asylum for women
On balance, Butcher is a savage literary provocation.
A story that began life on Reddit becomes one of the most original, nerve-shattering horror novels in memory
The plot, which unfolds at a frantic pace, comes to resemble an M.C. Escher sketch.
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.