His enchanting new novel is a triumph.
Hanif Kureishi’s tweets from his sickbed are a bravura performance that is no performance at all.
In his new book, Ted Conover moves to a remote valley in southern Colorado to experience 21st-century life off the grid.
In new books, the writers Elizabeth McCracken and Lynne Tillman look back at the fraught ends of their mothers’ lives.
Living in Turkey has made the author a master of the genre.
The death of the British novelist is occasion to remember her genius as well as the chronic illness that shaped her work.
Tom Perrotta reassesses his ’90s antihero.
What everyone gets wrong about Sheila Heti’s fiction
Why did he lie about his sources?
François Poulain was ahead of his time—and ours.
Blake Bailey, who wrote Philip Roth: The Biography, has been accused of sexual crimes.
Kazuo Ishiguro returns to masters and servants with a story of love between a machine and the girl she belongs to.
Resistance requires a lot more strategy.
This year, I trained to work at the polls. I’m sure I’ll screw up.
Could a marriage policy first pursued by the Catholic Church a millennium and a half ago explain what made the industrialized world so powerful—and so peculiar?
As the author’s remarkable trilogy ends, her epic hero’s self-mastery is newly in doubt.
Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a dire toll on American society.
The voice revolution has only just begun. Today, Alexa is a humble servant. Very soon, she could be much more—a teacher, a therapist, a confidant, an informant.
Finding love in the postromantic, postmarital age
The sisters turned domestic constraints into grist for brilliant books.