Book Review: Ways of Going Home
/The newest novel from the newest Chilean literary wunderkind
Read MoreBook Review: The Best of Youth
/In Michael Dahlie's new novel, an idle young millionaire ghost-writes a book for an arrogant Hollywood star
Read MoreBook Review: The Illicit Happiness of Other People
/The death of a talented teenage artist spins his family and friends into turmoil in Manu Joseph's incredibly accomplished second novel.
Read MoreBook Review: The Fall of the Stone City
/In the latest Ismail Kadare novel to be translated into English, an Albanian doctor invites the invading Nazis to an elaborate dinner at his house - but what exactly happens that night, to the strains of Schubert?
Read MoreBook Review: The Boy
/In Lara Santoro's new novella, an older woman falls head-over-heels into a physical passion for a younger man - with consequences that threaten to tear her life apart
Read MoreBook Review: Scenes from Early Life
/A talented novelist writes the story of his husband's family's experiences in war-torn Bangladesh - but is it life, or art?
Read MoreBook Review: A Dangerous Inheritance
/Historian Alison Weir's latest novel features two young heroines, separated by 80 years but united by their fascination with one of history's mysteries: the fate of the Princes in the Tower
Read MoreBook Review: Kafka in Love
/Franz Kafka was eternally affianced but never married - maybe more in love with the concept of love than with any particular woman. A new novel intensely dramatizes the writer and his passions.
Read MoreBook Review: The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up
/Trying to mind his own business, a man at a Yankees game refuses to stand for a singing of "God Bless America" - and all Hell breaks loose.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Forever Rumpole
/A generous collection of stories featuring John Mortimer's immortal creation, wine-swilling judge-taunting criminal-defending barrister, Horace Rumpole of the Old Bailey
Read MoreNow in Paperback: The Paperboy
/Pete Dexter's lean, harrowing novel of murder and ambition is coming to the big screen with a full complement of movie stars - and a new paperback edition of the book is a happy by-product.
Read MoreBook Review: The Exceptions
/The son of a powerful crime family falls in love with a young woman in the Witness Protection Program - a young woman his family wants dead! Don't you hate it when that happens?
Read MoreBook Review: Equal of the Sun
/16th Century Iran comes alive in a new novel
Read MoreBook Review: Capital
/In John Lanchester's new novel, a posh London street is hit hard when the housing bubble bursts
Read MoreBook Review: The Family Corleone
/Veteran writer Ed Falco pens a prequel to "The Godfather," featuring the rise of a crime family - and the story of a vicious strongman named Luca Brasi.
Read MoreBook Review: HHhH
/A popular French book about the daring assassination of a Nazi official in 1942 receives an English translation
Read MoreBook Review: The Uninvited Guests
/A darkly dazzling new Edwardian novel to tempt fans of "Downton Abbey"
Read MoreBook Review: The Inquisitor
/A new thriller features an implacable torturer-for-hire as its problematic protagonist.
Read MoreBook Review: History of a Pleasure Seeker
/In Richard Mason's latest novel, a handsome, articulate young man takes a job with a wealthy family as tutor for their troubled son
Read MoreBook Review: Watergate
/Thomas Mallon's latest novel dramatizes the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon administration
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