Koch Tease: on Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style by Paul Rudnick
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Paul Rudnick’s newest and best novel, a bittersweet rom-com, is equal parts fantasy and memoir.
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Up With the Sun by Thomas Mallon
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Thomas Mallon’s latest novel takes on the strange and tragic life of stage actor Dick Kallman.
Read MoreThe Kingdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran
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Andrew Holleran returns with a deeply elegiac novel after an absence of 15 years.
Read MoreEven the Darkest Night by Javier Cercas
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Javier Cercas, one of Spain’s greatest writers, turns to crime fiction to confront the ghosts of the Spanish Civil War.
Read MoreMario Vargas Llosa: Harsh Times and the “Fantastical Repudiation of Reality”
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The Nobel Laureate’s latest novel continues to blur the line between history and pure invention.
Read MoreGood Behaviour, by Molly Keane
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Molly Keane’s masterpiece, a hilarious and withering portrayal of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, is back in print.
Read MoreA Theater for Dreamers, by Polly Samson
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Leonard Cohen cameos in a seductive new novel set in the Greek island of Hydra.
Read MoreScrewball: Review of Darin Strauss’ “The Queen of Tuesday”
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Did Grandpa have a Ball? A novelist weaves a bit of family lore into a colorful and touching mid-century tapestry.
Read MoreThe Worst Books of 2019: Fiction!
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Stevereads makes a list of 2019’s lazy, entitled fiction.
Read MoreOK, Mr. Field by Katharine Kilalea
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A deeply meditative novel whose curious tone teases out tantalizing questions about how we position ourselves in the world.
Read MoreProblems by Jade Sharma
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It feels like Maya, the narrator of Jade Sharma's debut novel, could be the outsider voice of this generation.
Read MoreSoviet Milk by Nora Ikstena
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The story of three generations of women, as well as the effects of Soviet rule on their lives.
Read MoreThe Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
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Authentic characters, a compelling story, timeliness, and big ideas--The Female Persuasion excels on all counts.
Read MoreOliver Loving by Stefan Merrill Block
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Oliver Loving, the quirky, smart, awkward, immediately likable 17-year-old main character in Stefan Merrill Block's new novel Oliver Loving, occupies the center of the book like a black hole (kudos to Keith Hayes for his Flatiron Books US cover design showing exactly that), an absence that's also a presence, a ravitational pull so strong it swallows light and bends time. Oliver lives in Bliss, Texas with his father Jed, his mother Eve, and his brother Charlie, and he's making his way through the relatively ordinary life of an optimistic, bookish teenager when everything suddenly changes.
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