“Never Flinch” is a tale of stalkers and serial killers, with a strong dose of social critique.
In “Harmattan Season,” the search for a missing woman uncovers a scheme that could change the fate of an occupied city in West Africa.
Edward St. Aubyn returns with a wide-ranging narrative anchored by a schizophrenic patient.
In Darrow Farr’s novel, “The Bombshell,” a spoiled French teenager comes to realize her social-justice-minded captors have a point.
If HBO’s zombie drama has you craving more postapocalyptic action, these books have got you covered.
In “The South,” a Malaysian man recalls the life-changing period he spent on his family’s dilapidated farm when he was a teenager.
Madonna, Scorsese, Warhol and “Piss Christ” play roles in Paul Elie’s maybe-too-comprehensive look at how divisive expressions of faith came to the fore.
For three decades at Columbia Journalism School, Sam Freedman has encouraged students to try long-form narratives. His brand of tough love has paid dividends.
In a new collection, Etgar Keret offers tales of humanity in the strangest of circumstances.
The prolific fantasy author, best known for his Discworld series, infused his writing with empathy and humor. Here’s where to start.
Her book “Against Our Will” argued that rape was a crime of power and violence, not passion; it led to laws that made it easier to prosecute rapists.
Florida in the early 1960s; California in the mid-1980s.
In her entrancing, disturbing “Daughters of the Bamboo Grove,” Barbara Demick traces the wildly divergent paths of twins born in China under the one-child rule.
Abandoned by both her mother and a really bad ex, the 25-year-old narrator of “Gingko Season” avoids her own traumas by focusing on grand historical ones.
In the novel “Consider Yourself Kissed,” a wife and mother faces many of the same hurdles in 2016 that women did decades ago.
In his latest novel, “The Living and the Rest,” José Eduardo Agualusa takes readers to a literary festival in Africa where novelists’ characters come to life.
His Holocaust novel “King of the Jews” was widely praised. He also wrote about his show-business family and taught writing at Boston University.
The lauded cartoonist talks about the process behind her autobiographical new graphic novel, “Spent.”
Tech power players and the global far-right are learning all the wrong lessons from “The Lord of the Rings.”
In “Murder in the Dollhouse,” Rich Cohen tells the story of Jennifer Dulos — and our queasy fascination.
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