1/25/22John Darnielle untangles the knotty ethics of true crime in the fictional Devil HouseThe third novel from the Mountain Goats frontman centers around a true crime writer and a pair of grisly murders
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11/23/21HBO oral history Tinderbox offers little more than amusing anecdotesJames Andrew Miller interviews dozens of key players from HBO’s past for his 1,024-page book, but can’t weave them…
8/3/21Chinatown meets climate change in Alexandra Kleeman’s Something New Under The SunAlexandra Kleeman sets her neo-noir novel in a burning Hollywood
7/19/21The Cult Of We expertly charts the disastrous arc of Adam Neumann’s WeWorkWall Street Journal reporters Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell explain, better than anyone else, how the real estate…
2/8/21Fragments Of An Infinite Memory traces the decline of the internet through one man’s eyesWhat did the internet used to be like? I’m not sure I remember. The conventional wisdom is that, even six or seven…
12/16/20The A.V. Club’s 15 favorite books of 2020A certain amount of escapism through books would have been more than understandable in 2020. (And by “a certain…
8/3/20The Death Of Vivek Oji’s story of family and care shines, but its mystery falls apartMany novels begin with death, the threat of it, or its consequences. Perhaps the best and most famous example is…
8/19/19A return to Cross River yields absurdist tales of robot slaves, doomed professors, and other godforsaken misfitsIn the opening story of Rion Amilcar Scott’s second collection, The World Doesn’t Require You, the literal children…
4/15/19Class and power share a bed in Sally Rooney’s Normal PeopleIn Sally Rooney’s Normal People, the follow-up to her excellent and very popular debut novel, Conversations With…
2/4/19A tense quest opens Marlon James’ sprawling fantasy series set in a brutal, mythical AfricaMarlon James announced his intention to write a sprawling fantasy trilogy shortly after his previous novel, 2014’s A…
10/8/18Murakami’s usual flights of fancy can’t save the mundane Killing CommendatoreThe unnamed narrator of Haruki Murakami’s new novel, Killing Commendatore, is a recently divorced painter. He…