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  • Book Review Douglas Kennedy: The Moment

    A thriller twist spices up a novel that operates on two timelines and contrasts a staid professor with his livelier past. 

    May 26, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Chris Adrian: The Great Night

    The author of The Children’s Hospital updates A Midsummer Night’s Dream in this novel, but loses sight of the humor among all the breast-beating anguish.

    May 19, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • If You Were Here

    Book Review Jen Lancaster: If You Were Here

    The author of Bitter Is The New Black and Such A Pretty Fat moves from memoir to fiction, with disappointing results.

    May 12, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • The Tragedy Of Arthur

    Book Review Arthur Phillips: The Tragedy Of Arthur

    A lost Shakespeare play—which may be the work of a con artist—acts as the McGuffin in this twisty postmodern novel about authorship and authenticity.

    May 5, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Tina Fey: Bossypants

    The creator of 30 Rock offers up a memoir that’s half insight, half jokes.

    April 28, 2011 | 12:30am -

  • What You See In The Dark

    Book Review Manuel Muñoz: What You See In The Dark

    Star-crossed lovers and an aging actress flesh out this sometimes resonant, sometimes puzzling debut novel.

    April 14, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • The Architect Of Flowers

    Book Review William Lychack: The Architect Of Flowers

    A first short-story collection from the author of The Wasp Eater deals in many ways with death and emotional disconnection.

    April 7, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • Unfamiliar Fishes

    Book Review Sarah Vowell: Unfamiliar Fishes

    The latest wonky, funny history from the public-radio commentator and author of The Wordy Shipmates and Assassination Vacation may be too wonky and funny.

    March 31, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • The Raising

    Book Review Laura Kasischke: The Raising

    A horror novel about memory loss surrounding a death finds new energy in old tropes.

    March 17, 2011 | 12:40am -

  • Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Sausages

    Book Review Tom Holt: Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Sausages

    Alternate universes, quantum physics, and a thoughtful pig all play parts in this Douglas Adams-esque novel from the popular comic author of Expecting Someone Taller.

    March 10, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • The Evolution Of Bruno Littlemore

    Book Review Benjamin Hale: The Evolution Of Bruno Littlemore

    An intelligent ape makes humanity look bad.

    February 24, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • The Old Romantic

    Book Review Louise Dean: The Old Romantic

    A family drama from the author of Becoming Strangers inverts an old trope about an aging patriarch in distress.

    February 24, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • The Terror Of Living

    Book Review Urban Waite: The Terror Of Living

    This cops-vs.-drug-runners debut novel gives equal access and sympathy to both sides.

    February 10, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Kevin Brockmeier: The Illumination

    Human pain becomes unexpected light in a series of linked stories that never live up to their luminous central conceit.

    February 3, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • The Fates Will Find Their Way

    Book Review Hannah Pittard: The Fates Will Find Their Way

    A girl’s disappearance permanently haunts her classmates in this melancholy debut.

    January 27, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • Caribou Island

    Book Review David Vann: Caribou Island

    A grim debut novel follows its many characters out into the bitter cold.

    January 20, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • From Bible Belt To Sunbelt

    Book Review Darren Dochuk: From Bible Belt To Sunbelt

    An overview of Southern Baptists’ spread in California—and the subsequent social and political shifts—focuses on big players and big changes.

    January 13, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • The Metropolis Case

    Book Review Matthew Gallaway: The Metropolis Case

    A debut novel links four opera-lovers across a century and searches for profundity, but strains to pull off competence.

    January 6, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • An Object Of Beauty

    Book Review Steve Martin: An Object Of Beauty

    The comedian and actor channels his interest in the art world into a slight but entertaining novel about the rise of a young New York art dealer.

    December 23, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • The Emperor Of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee

    Book Review Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Emperor Of All Maladies

    This comprehensive “biography of cancer” reveals the colorful figures and evolving science that shaped today’s treatments.

    December 16, 2010 | 12:02am -

  • Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing Of My Work!

    Book Review Douglas Coupland: Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing Of My Work!

    The author of Generation X and JPod aims his sights at the famed communication theorist, with patchy results.

    December 2, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • The War For Late Night

    Book Review Bill Carter: The War For Late Night

    The resurgence of the late-night talk-show wars brought the author of The Late Shift back to document the Leno/Conan dust-up.

    November 18, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • How To Read The Air

    Book Review Dinaw Mengestu: How To Read The Air

    The author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears returns with a second novel that intelligently looks at how one generation's formative traumas affect the next.

    November 11, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Travels In Siberia

    Book Review Ian Frazier: Travels In Siberia

    The author of the bestselling Great Plains returns with another ambitious, personal travelogue, this one through the frozen Russian wasteland.

    October 28, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • The Instructions

    Book Review Adam Levin: The Instructions

    A massive thousand-page debut novel leaves no thought unexplored in the head of its 10-year-old proto-Messiah protagonist.

    October 28, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • World And Town

    Book Review Gish Jen: World And Town

    Territory and community among Chinese and Cambodian immigrants put a backbone in the new novel from the author of Typical American and The Love Wife.

    October 7, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Girls To The Front

    Book Review Sara Marcus: Girls To The Front

    This history of the Riot Grrrl movement is a little too personal to be objective, but at least it's knowledgeable and entertaining.

    September 30, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • The Widower’s Tale

    Book Review Julia Glass: The Widower’s Tale

    An author returns to a bevy of male viewpoints after moving away from them, and gets a bit muddled in the process.

    September 30, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Fame: A Novel In Nine Episodes

    Book Review Daniel Kehlmann: Fame: A Novel In Nine Episodes

    A German author follows a bestseller with a book that's stuck between novel and short-story collection.

    September 23, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • C

    Book Review Tom McCarthy: C

    Recently shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the follow-up to Remainder presents a lot of detail, but not much connective tissue.

    September 9, 2010 | 12:00am -