fiction
Katherine Heiny has a particular talent for opening lines: “Your elderly father has mistaken his four-thousand-dollar hearing aid for a cashew and eaten it.”
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All in all, This Bird Has Flown is light but not brainless, and engagingly adorable. It’s a perfect beach read for the New Wave set.
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Another installment in the author’s portraits of everyday struggles — and this one is a long-winded, shaggy affair.
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Big Swiss is effervescent and funny, even if overcooked to some extent.
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Aleksandar Hemon’s latest novel is simply dizzying, filled with texture, startling imagery, language in multiple tongues (keep Google within reach!), and it succeeds in most every respect.
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Host Elizabeth Howard talks to author Meredith Hall about her debut novel Beneficence, which deals with a family traumatized by death of a child by a gun.
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The Ash Family is a full-color illustration of how the modern world leaves people vulnerable to radical ideas.
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In Washington Black novelist Esi Edugyan has defied the cliché of the escaped slave discovering freedom.
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The strength of The Mars Room is its compelling vision of the stultifying and claustrophobic underworld of women in prison.
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Book Commentary: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “Why I Write” — Incomplete Answer
The old questions, good as they are, are going to be augmented with new ones: Are we creating a world worth living in? Are we creating a world we can continue to live in?
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