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  • Book Review Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

    The author of the award-winning, semi-autobiographical lesbian coming-out novel Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit turns to biography and explains why she hid in fiction.

    March 7, 2012 | 12:02pm -

  • Book Review Josh Bazell: Wild Thing

    The sequel to Beat The Reaper drops its hitman-in-witness-production protagonist into increasingly weird territory, involving a killer monster. 

    February 29, 2012 | 12:02pm -

  • Book Review Tom McCarthy: Men In Space

    An interim novel from the author of Remainder and C brings its story of an art heist in the Czech Republic to the U.S. for the first time.

    February 8, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Book Review Elliot Perlman: The Street Sweeper

    A historian with access to a lost cache of Holocaust stories and a Pole with a need to share his past form parallel stories in this mystery-esque drama. 

    February 1, 2012 | 12:02pm -

  • Book Review Matt Bondurant: The Night Swimmer

    The author of The Wettest County In The World returns with the story of a couple who win their own pub in Ireland, but see their relationship disintegrating as a result.

    January 25, 2012 | 12:01pm -

  • Book Review Gin Phillips: Come In And Cover Me

    The second novel from the author of The Well And The Mine follows a museum director whose interest in archeology dovetails with her apparent encounters with ghosts.

    January 18, 2012 | 12:02pm -

  • Book Review Alex Gilvarry: From The Memoirs Of A Non-Enemy Combatant

    A debut novel about a fashion designer turned terrorism suspect mixes humor with a wry look at the politics of detainment. 

    January 11, 2012 | 12:03pm -

  • Best of The best books we read in 2011 

    What we read, and why we loved it, in 2011. 

    December 28, 2011 | 12:01pm -

  • Book Review Luis Alberto Urrea: Queen Of America 

    The life of a Mexican folk healer gets its second compelling exploration via another novel from one of her relatives. 

    December 21, 2011 | 12:03pm -

  • Book Review Péter Nádas: Parallel Stories

    This epic novel from the bestselling Hungarian author sprawls across decades, but may be too ambitious to connect.

    December 14, 2011 | 12:02pm -

  • Book Review Rashad Harrison: Our Man In The Dark 

    A debut novel based on real-life FBI surveillance of Martin Luther King features a double agent trying to balance his ambition with the roles thrust upon him.

    December 7, 2011 | 12:03pm -

  • Book Review Colson Whitehead: Zone One

    The celebrated author of The Intuitionist and John Henry Days offers an intelligent, literary take on, yes, the zombie novel.

    November 9, 2011 | 12:02pm -

  • Book Review David McRaney: You Are Not So Smart

    This blog-turned-book examines the parameters of human self-delusion, on topics from Facebook friends to procrastination.

    November 2, 2011 | 12:03pm -

  • Book Review Susan Orlean: Rin Tin Tin

    The author of The Orchid Thief digs into the life of the first famous dog actor, his owner, and the changing business that made him a star.

    October 26, 2011 | 12:01pm -

  • Book Review Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger’s Child

    The winner of the Man Booker prize for 2004’s The Line Of Beauty returns with another novel characteristically interested in the lives and loves of the hidden gay men of England.

    October 12, 2011 | 12:02pm -

  • Book Review Anne Enright: The Forgotten Waltz

    The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering puts a protagonist in a storm-wracked house and lets her stew over her infidelities.

    October 5, 2011 | 12:01am -

  • Book Review Jesmyn Ward: Salvage The Bones

    Another “new American Steinbeck” tells a grim tale of poverty and attempted escape. 

    September 21, 2011 | 12:03pm -

  • Book Review Kevin Mitnick: Ghost In The Wires 

    In his memoir, the infamous hacker boasts about his achievements and laments his punishments.

    September 14, 2011 | 12:01pm -

  • Book Review Nicholson Baker: House Of Holes 

    The author of Vox, The Fermata, and other novels returns with another slight, porny, unsatisfying sliver of a tale, this time about a magical house of sexual wish-fulfillment.

    September 14, 2011 | 12:00pm -

  • Book Review Chad Harbach: The Art Of Fielding

    A debut novel follows in the wake of The Natural and other great American baseball stories with this tale of a talented amateur and the coming-of-age team around him.

    September 7, 2011 | 12:02pm -

  • Book Review Amy Waldman: The Submission 

    The realistic but overly straightforward first novel from a New York Times vet asks what would happen if a Muslim architect won a blind competition to design a 9/11 memorial.

    August 31, 2011 | 12:03pm -

  • Book Review Tom Perrotta: The Leftovers

    The author of Little Children, Election, and The Abstinence Teacher returns with an intriguing new novel about the aftermath of the Rapture, or its closest cousin.

    August 24, 2011 | 12:04pm -

  • Book Review Max Barry: Machine Man 

    The dystopia-loving author of Company and Jennifer Government returns with the dark story of a prosthetist gone mad. 

    August 17, 2011 | 12:02pm -

  • Book Review Tom Scocca: Beijing Welcomes You

    The current managing editor of Deadspin spent a year in Beijing, watching as the city was torn apart and rebuilt for the Olympic Games. This is his story.

    August 10, 2011 | 12:01pm -

  • Book Review Edie Meidav: Lola, California

    A long-lost friendship is revived as a key player in the relationship sits on death row in this novel from the author of The Far Field and Crawl Space.

    July 27, 2011 | 12:00pm -

  • Book Review Bonnie Jo Campbell: Once Upon A River

    A short story from a National Book Awards finalist anthology gets expanded into this gritty, picaresque story.

    July 20, 2011 | 12:00pm -

  • Book Review David Kaiser: How The Hippies Saved Physics

    A history of physics studies in the ’50s and ’60s makes a compelling argument that countercultural-affiliated abstract thinkers changed the field by emphasizing theory over application.

    July 13, 2011 | 12:00pm -

  • Book Review Jesse Ball: The Curfew

    The second novel from the author of Samedi The Deafness attempts to find pathos without words, which is an ambitious but awkward task for a prose book.

    July 6, 2011 | 12:00pm -

  • Book Review Kate Christensen: The Astral

    The latest from the author of The Great Man finds a man suffering for an affair he didn’t have.

    June 23, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Eleanor Henderson: Ten Thousand Saints

    A debut novel makes order out of a chaos of characters dealing with the OD death of one of their own.

    June 9, 2011 | 12:00am -