In Vaishnavi Patel’s bold reimagining, Kaikeyi of the Ramayana has been recast as protagonist, feminist and godforsaken underdog.
Jennifer Egan’s empathetic interest in human behavior is what drives The Candy House, making her companion novel to A Visit From the Goon Squad more than just a literary experiment.
Jennifer Egan’s empathetic interest in human behavior is what drives The Candy House, making her companion novel to A Visit From the Goon Squad more than just a literary experiment.
Helping Howard is at once a funny, fizzy rom-com; a tense, discomfiting family drama; and an act of full-on narrative experimentation.
Helping Howard is at once a funny, fizzy rom-com; a tense, discomfiting family drama; and an act of full-on narrative experimentation.
The interlocking plot of Emily St. John Mandel’s sixth novel resolves beautifully, making for a humane and moving time-travel story.
Bonnie Garmus’ devastating and funny debut novel, Lessons in Chemistry, blows the lid off the simplistic myth of post-World War II American life.
Eloghosa Osunde shows how each of her characters in Vagabonds! is part of something much larger than themselves.
My Volcano, John Elizabeth Stintzi’s deranged Mobius-strip of a book, is perhaps most likely to remind readers of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation.
At times somber, often bitingly funny, awash in playfulness and fiercely proud, True Biz is a masterfully crafted love letter to Deaf culture.
Isaac Fellman’s characters make even the darkest moments beautiful, in a way that will remind the reader of the work of Anne Rice and Stephen Graham Jones.
Diana Abu-Jaber writes with a poet’s attention to language, and her novel beautifully evokes Jordan, from modern cities to ancient desert sites.
Funny, moving and composed of sentences that read like small poems, The Swimmers is a remarkable novel from an unparalleled writer.
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