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For Clare Chambers, the function of her novels is both simple and profound: they are what she calls a 'reaching out' to readers, a chance to share 'a moment of [...]

Like most authors, Susan Minot is no stranger to writing about love, sex, and relationships. But for her latest novel, she wanted to take an erotic love story into somewhat [...]

It should come as no surprise that Aysegul Savas's new novel The Anthropologists (Bloomsbury, July) is about a couple searching for home and community, hoping to belong somewhere and put [...]

In September, Knopf will publish Jayne Anne Phillips's new novel, Night Watch. It's been a decade since her last novel, Quiet Dell, and years since her debut, the story collection [...]

In Julius Taranto's wildly original debut, a student on the cusp of a scientific breakthrough follows her disgraced mentor to an island where bad behavior is the norm Can a [...]

Parisienne Maud Ventura started writing her novel My Husband (HarpetVia, July) at 25, after she fell madly in love and moved in with her boyfriend. Three years later, she says, [...]

In her latest novel, Kairos (New Directions, June), German writer Jenny Erpenbeck looks at East Germany in the 1980s and '90s through the lens of a love affair that is [...]

In the Booker-shortlisted Prophet Song (Grove, Dec; reviewed on p. 27), Lynch imagines an Ireland falling into chaos under an authoritarian regime. Much of your work is set in the [...]

Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul Jamie Ducharme (Holt) When Ducharme's 2019 Time article on Juul came out, it was pretty tough to walk around New York without seeing [...]

In the 1980s, through the devastation of AIDS, Abraham Verghese was working as a doctor in rural Tennessee. Burned-out, he cashed everything in to take a sabbatical and attend the [...]

Margaret Atwood's latest book, Old Babes in the Woods (Doubleday, Mar. 2023), is a collection of 15 stories--her first collection since 2014's Stone Mattress. In it she confronts aging and [...]

Zoje Stage's fourth psychological thriller, Mothered (Thomas & Mercer, Mar. 2023), is terrifying and claustrophobic, but it is not, as Stage clearly expresses in an author's note, meant to document [...]

In 2014, Tracey Rose Peyton stumbled upon a book by Paula Giddings: When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America, which included [...]

In 2013, when she was 18 years old, Deena Mohamed, an Egyptian illustrator and writer, created a webcomic that went viral. Qahera features a Muslim superhero who can detect misogyny, [...]

Monica Heisey's bittersweet debut novel features an endearing, acerbic heroine in her 20s who's facing divorce after 608 days of marriage There's nothing funny about divorce, unless you're reading Canadian [...]

Bushra Rehman's novel, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion (Flatiron, Dec), is a love song: to a community--Pakistani Americans; to a time--the 1980s; and to a place--the Corona neighborhood [...]

Bora Chung's first work to be translated into English, Cursed Bunny (Algonquin, Dec), has been dubbed genre bending for its blending of science fiction, magical realism, and horror. But none [...]

In her debut memoir, Token Black Girl (Little A, Oct.), Danielle Prescod defines the girl of her title: 'The Token Black Girl is characterized mostly by her proximity to her [...]

A pivotal event in journalist Hua Hsu's life was the senseless murder of his best friend, Ken, when they were students at Berkeley in the 1990s. Hsu wasn't thinking of [...]

Ian M'cEwan's 18th novel, Lessons (Knopf, Sept ), cuts a wide swath through history, from post-WWII to the pandemic, with the story told through the experiences of a single man [...]

In his fifth novel, The Great Man Theory (Bloomsbury, July), Teddy Wayne creates an unforgettable character: an aggrieved curmudgeon who, fed up with current politics and culture, implements a wildly [...]

This is a story about love. Does it conquer all? Does lightening ever strike twice? Delia Ephron's almost unbelievable memoir, Left on Tenth, coming in April from Little, Brown, will [...]

When Mexican author Fernanda Melchor was thinking abour her new novel, Paradais (New Directions, Mar.), she knew she wanted it to be 'short and precise, propulsive, like an arrow shot [...]

There are wonderful stories in publishing, but the story of Douglas Stuart is pure magic. And with Young Mungo (Grove, Apr. 2022), the follow-up to his 2020 Booker Prize-winning debut [...]

With his fourth novel and sixth book, Sleepwalk (Holt, Apr. 2022), Dan Chaon wants to show he can be lighter of heart and not just depressive. Chaon's work is notably [...]

The inspiration for Jenny Tinghui Zhang's debut novel, Four Treasures of the Sky (Flatiron, Apr. 2022), was a marker her father saw on a road in Idaho. It was at [...]

Celebrities, both literary and popular, from Richard Ford to Caitlyn Jenner, are out there this season with their stories. But everyone has a story to tell: of food, of struggle, [...]

With works from a Pulitzer winner and a debut novelist, this spring's fiction features ghosts, a retelling of Clytemnestra's tale, sinister VHS tapes, and much more. TOP 10 Exit West [...]

In her debut book, Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation (Random House, Mar. 2022), Maud Newton weaves an interest in her family's history into a memoir that embraces genealogy, [...]

Anna Pitoniak writes thrilling books, and for her third novel, Our American Friend (Simon & Schuster, Feb. 2022), she pulls out all the stops. There's a mysterious first lady, a [...]

When I interviewed Gwen Kirby about her debut collection, Shit Cassandra Saw (Penguin Books, Jan.), my first questions were simple: Who are you? And where did you come from? She [...]

In School for Good Mothers (Simon & Schuster, Jan.), Jessamine Chan takes on class, race, and the expectations of motherhood in an oppressive society. The response to Chan's debut dystopian [...]

Lisa Harding's repertoire includes acting and writing plays, short stories, and, most recently, novels. Harvesting, her debut novel, was published in Ireland by New Island Books in 2017. It went [...]

Wole Soyinka's literary and activist careers are as marvelous and impressive as his full name, Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, which Pantheon executive editor Erroll McDonald told me to look up. [...]

After the Haitian earthquake of Jan. 20, 2010, Myriam J.A. Chancy, who was then known primarily as an academic writing about Afro-Caribbean women, went on the road for six months [...]

Do you remember reading a mammoth mesmerizing book that transported you to other worlds and times so that all you cared about was turning the next page? If so, I [...]

Irish writer Colm Toibin, whose forthcoming novel The Magician (Scribner, Sept.) embraces the life of Thomas Mann, tells me that, though he had read all of Mann's work by his [...]

Everyone has one, whether it's about the trials of growing up different, finding love, or learning a language unspoken for centuries. Well told, any story, about anything at all, can [...]

Poet, critic, writer, and MacArthur fellow Maggie Nelson says she knew she was 'biting off quite a bit' when she decided to write about freedom. The idea for her 10th [...]

Nathan Harris's father was obsessed with researching his family history, but when Harris asked what he'd discovered, the answer was almost nothing--a common situation for many Black Americans. In his [...]

When Cynthia Saltzman was given access to the Louvre galleries after regular closing hours, the curator was flummoxed that she wasn't interested in the Mona Lisa. She wasn't. The painting [...]

People and their antics are infinitely interesting--whether they are historical, literary, or criminal figures, or their tales are told by themselves or others. If you are interested in stories of [...]

AGATE Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. will sign 200 copies of his third novel, Grant Park. ALGONQUIN On offer will be 500 galleys of each of three titles: B. [...]

The story of a city, a time; the story of recovery, escape; the story of coming-of-age; the story of a career ... This spring's memoirs and bios cover all of [...]

Speaking about the experiences that inspired her debut novel, The Final Revival of Opal & Hev (Simon & Schuster, Apr. 2021), Dawnie Walton tells me, 'I was a Black girl [...]

There's nothing like a big book with a map in front to ramp up my excitement, and Maggie Shipstead's new novel, Great Circle (Knopf, May 2021), is one of those [...]

Kazuo Ishiguro puts to rest that old adage, 'Never meet your heroes.' He spoke with me via Zoom from his house in England (I was in my kitchen in New [...]

'When I wrote this book,' Gabriela Garcia says of her debut novel, Of Women and Salt, 'I had the ambitious idea of combining all these different threads I was obsessed [...]

In January, Simon & Schuster will publish Nadia Owusu's Aftershocks: A Memoir, which traces her nomadic childhood, the early absence of her parents, and the enduring impact of experiences that [...]

When Janice Nimura came across Emily Blackwell in the Sophie Smith collection at Smith College in 2015, she was intrigued and looking to fall in love with a project. Emily [...]