Novels

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10 Mar 2023

The Enchanted Worlds of Alan Garner

by Peter J. Leithart

Alan Garner has for a long, long time been plotting complex stories and achieving uncanny effects with matter-of-fact but densely allusive prose. Continue Reading »

3 Mar 2023

Bob Andrews: A Large and Patriotic Life

by George Weigel

A great talent for friendship across the divides of race and class informed Bob Andrews’s fiction even as it enriched his life and the lives of those drawn into his ample orbit. Continue Reading »

11 Jan 2023

A Year of Reading: 2022, Part 2

by John Wilson

Happy reading, and all best wishes for the new year. Continue Reading »

30 Dec 2022

Consensus Reality

by John Wilson

Andrew Klavan's wonderful new installment in the Cameron Winter series subtly warns against the reign of blue-check cultural informers. Continue Reading »

21 Oct 2022

Twenty years after publishing his first novel—years he spent establishing himself, in incisive, often fearsome essays and reviews and nonfiction books, as a leading literary–cultural critic—Pankaj Mishra had a Damascene moment of sorts. He describes it in a recent essay for . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2022

Given for Love

by Victor Lee Austin

Despite its flaws, Louise Penny’s latest novel is ultimately a book of fundamental human goodness. It encourages us to look at a child, as happens at a significant New Year’s Eve moment, and not see “Down syndrome,” but a person with a name—a person given for us to love. Continue Reading »

14 Jul 2022

A Tom Wolfe for the 2020s

by Peter J. Leithart

The Index of Self-Destructive Acts is the Big New York Book of the 2020s, as Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities was for the 1980s. Continue Reading »

24 Jun 2022