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  • Book Review Manil Suri: The City Of Devi

    Unlikely partners seek out their mutual lover in terrorist-torn India in this colorful but unlikely novel.

    April 22, 2013 | 12:01am -

  • Book Review Michael Moss: Salt Sugar Fat: How The Food Giants Hooked Us

    This entertaining, horrifying look at food-industry tricks and secrets is long on chilling reveals, but short on fixes or answers.

    April 15, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Amity Gaige: Schroder

    Based on a famous case of false identity and family kidnapping, this novel tells a rich story, but pulls too many punches.

    April 1, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Ron Currie Jr.: Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles

    This bizarre piece of autobiographical fiction features the author faking his own death to become famous, somewhat inadvertently.

    March 25, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Sam Lipsyte: The Fun Parts: Stories

    The author of The Ask returns with a collection of stories about the hapless and the helpless. 

    March 18, 2013 | 12:02am -

  • Book Review Ludmilla Petrushevskaya: There Once Lived A Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories

    A Russian veteran brings a book of taut, elegant short stories to America.

    February 4, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Nicholas Christopher: Tiger Rag

    A real-life jazz pioneer inspired the threads of this novel, as various characters hunt down a long-lost session recording for their own reasons.

    January 21, 2013 | 12:01am -

  • Best of The best books we read in 2012

    Once again, our book reviewers look back on a year of dedicated reading, and pick some of their favorites.

    December 31, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Bill Roorbach: Life Among Giants

    An NFL quarterback turned chef struggles to come to terms with his parents’ murder and his wealthy neighbors in this John Irving-esque novel. 

    December 10, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Jami Attenberg: The Middlesteins

    The author of The Melting Season returns with a Jonathan Franzen-esque sprawling family about a woman whose eating disorder leads her to abandon her family.

    December 3, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review A.M. Homes: May We Be Forgiven

    Arrested Development is a familiar touchstone in this tragicomic novel about a patriarch who gets put away and the reluctant relative who replaces him as family figurehead.

    November 19, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review T.C. Boyle: San Miguel

    The latest from the author of Drop City once again focuses on isolated communities and insular relationships.

    November 5, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Tom Wolfe: Back To Blood

    The author of The Right Stuff and The Bonfire Of The Vanities sniffs distastefully over the modern Sodom of Miami, in fictional form.

    October 22, 2012 | 12:03am -

  • Book Review Emma Straub: Laura Lamont’s Life In Pictures 

    A debut novel chronicling the rise of a ’30s Hollywood star reveals the loneliness and transience of fame.

    September 24, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Zadie Smith: NW 

    The author of White Teeth returns with a close exploration of a London neighborhood in this strong, emotional novel.

    September 17, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Book Review Martin Amis: Lionel Asbo: State of England 

    A British ex-pat mocks the state of his home country through the lens of a thuggish nouveau-rich Lotto mega-winner. 

    September 3, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Book Review Victor LaValle: The Devil In Silver 

    This novel sets out to expose some of the problems of mental hospitals, but the agenda outweighs the narrative. 

    August 27, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Book Review Kurt Andersen: True Believers 

    A ’60s radical struggles with her past—and worse, the question of whether anyone else cares about her past—in this fast-paced novel. 

    August 13, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Book Review John Brandon: A Million Heavens 

    A teenager who drops into a coma after a supposed religious experience unites and divides a town in this tender novel. 

    July 30, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Book Review Joe Meno: Office Girl 

    The Hairstyles Of The Damned author returns with a novel about dull people living dull lives—which somehow turns out to be dull. 

    July 23, 2012 | 12:03am -

  • Book Review Dave Eggers: A Hologram For The King

    The author of What Is The What continues to disguise current events and opinions as fiction, but with diminishing results.

    July 16, 2012 | 12:02am -

  • Book Review Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl

    A woman's disappearance exposes the troubled roots of her marriage in this page-turning thriller.

    July 2, 2012 | 12:02am -

  • Book Review Richard Ford: Canada 

    The Pulitzer-winning author of The Sportswriter returns with a complicated look at a man trying to understand the marks his bank-robber parents left on his life. 

    June 11, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Book Review Peter Carey: The Chemistry Of Tears 

    The bestselling author of Parrot & Olivier In America returns with a dual-timeline book that links two people through the history of an elaborate mechanical swan. 

    May 28, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Book Review Ben Fountain: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

    An author held out by Malcolm Gladwell as the essence of late-blooming creative genius publishes his first novel, about an Iraq vet whose decisions skewer wartime America. 

    May 21, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Book Review Nell Freudenberger: The Newlyweds

    The story of an email-order Bangladeshi bride and her attempts to come to terms with her American husband proves surprisingly sweet. 

    May 14, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Book Review Jeet Thayil: Narcopolis

    A former drug addict from India turns his experiences with drugs into a poignant novel about a neighborhood that bonds via a drug parlor.

    April 23, 2012 | 12:03am -

  • Book Review Nick Harkaway: Angelmaker

    The search for a global doomsday device is more excitement than this novel’s dull protagonist deserves.  

    April 16, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Book Review Lauren Groff: Arcadia

    A commune gradually disintegrates in this novel based around the utopian community of Oneida, New York.

    March 28, 2012 | 12:02pm -

  • Book Review Heidi Julavits: The Vanishers

    The co-founder of The Believer returns with another stirring novel, this time about a failing psychic and her duel with the student who might surpass her.

    March 21, 2012 | 12:00pm -