The pain of long-held secrets and the lies necessary to preserve them are the subject of Bill Clegg’s intricately plotted second novel.
The voice of North African novelist Meryem Alaoui is a welcome one. Her debut is a powerful character study of a lively young sex worker.
Lush and enchanting, Magic Lessons reveals the nearly tragic but ultimately triumphant origin story of Maria, matriarch of the illustrious Owens clan.
Jennifer Givhan has forged a compelling tension between psychological drama and romance that makes for a riveting read.
If you allow yourself the time, you could easily spend a month reading and thinking about this novel’s debates regarding grace, redemption and love.
Though it’s categorized as a novel, there is little that, on the surface, appears fictional in Martin Amis’ capacious “novelized memoir,” Inside Story.
David Hajdu’s debut novel is the literary equivalent of negative space in art: creating a picture of a subject by focusing on surrounding details.
‘A Room Called Earth’, written by a neurologically diverse author, culminates in unexpected intimacy between the reader and an extraordinary mind.
‘Payback’ offers many pleasures, not only the range in voices but also the evocation of two eras, the early 1970s and the current decade.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar mixes fact and fiction about the awakening that marked his journey to Broadway.
‘Transcendent Kingdom’ has an expansive scope that ranges into fresh, relevant territories.
Everyone has a moment when they wish they could just chuck everything and start over. Larry Watson leaves room for readers to ponder whether they should.
First-time novelist Ella Berman deftly captures the entertainment industry in all its fickleness.
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