Novels

Books to Look Forward To

If in due course you happen to pick up and read any of these titles, I’d love to hear back from you. Happy reading. Continue Reading »

21 Apr 2022

What We’ve Been Reading—January 2022

by Editors

Our editors reflect on Eugene Vodolazkin, detective fiction, Jonathan Franzen, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, and Flannery O’Connor. Continue Reading »

27 Jan 2022

What Sally Rooney Thinks Reading Is For

by Liel Leibovitz

Rooney’s decision not to publish her books in Hebrew isn’t really about Israel or its policies at all. It’s about the meaning of culture, how it should be produced and consumed, and who and what it should serve. Continue Reading »

15 Oct 2021

When the TV Turns Off

by Cassandra Nelson

To say that Don DeLillo dislikes television would be an understatement. He actually seems to think it’s imperiling our souls. DeLillo’s novel White Noise—which won the National Book Award in 1985 and secured his reputation as one of the best contemporary American writers—was . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2021

Infinite Hitlers

by Sam Kriss

In 1980, the soldiers of the Third Reich took Bolivia. After the huge tank battles that had brought about the final victory in Europe, South America was something more like a police operation—in fact, the conquest of the country was led not by the Wehrmacht, but by a Hauptsturmführer of the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2021

The Internet Novel Comes of Age

by Eve Tushnet

To understand the Internet you need both: Lockwood’s diptych of cloud and clarity, and Basu’s chaos mosaic. Continue Reading »

4 Jun 2021

What We’ve Been Reading—March 2021

by Editors

Our editors reflect on their latest reads. Continue Reading »

23 Mar 2021

The Spymaster

by Samuel Goldman

Last December, while most of us were watching the presidential election lumber toward its disastrous conclusion, two aged representatives of a very different political era died. One of the deceased was David Cornwell, better known as John le Carré, the pen name he used while writing novels set in . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2021