Like a Möbius strip or an Escher drawing, Lorrie Moore’s fiction has long zigged and zagged and bent the world to its own gravity, forging a reality beyond the realism so dominant in the American...

The “Atlantic” writer and Pulitzer Prize winner’s narrative urges a better understanding of nature to combat the world’s biggest challenges.

At Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker, he polished the work of a who’s who of mid-to-late 20th century writers.

The “All Things Considered” host’s memoir-in-essays is an intimate history with personal accounts from around the world.

For 18 years, writer Hamilton Cain and his wife, Ellen, had a singular focus: keeping their son Owen alive. And then, in a span of hours, their world came tumbling down.

A new collection of Charles Portis’s work makes the case for his place in the American canon.

This exclusive short story chronicles characters beyond the reach of redemption: There’s no medicine to cure what ails them.

Novels from Argentina to Sweden and everywhere in between.

FICTION: A group of eco-guerrillas encounter a mysterious billionaire in this pre-pandemic literary thriller.

FICTION: Michael Crummey's magnificent book reimagines the story of Cain and Abel in 19th century Newfoundland.

NONFICTION: "The Wager" is a soaring literary accomplishment and seductive adventure tale.

How one writer overcame the grief of losing his son while reading Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet.

The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner is back with the second in a trilogy that kicked off with “Harlem Shuffle.”

Mariana Enriquez’s novel, her first published in English, uses otherworldly elements to consider Argentina’s violent history.

The “Things We Lost in the Fire” author is back with a deeply personal, stirring, speculative epic.

In “I Have Some Questions for You,” Rebecca Makkai dispatches her protagonist to a remote campus to teach — and seek justice.

The National Book Award winner rewinds the clock 60 years in this crystalline, searching homage to Graham Greene’s “The Quiet American.”

A couple’s daring escape from slavery, Picasso in France, Antonin Scalia’s rise to prominence and more.

Taylor Harris’s affecting, razor-sharp debut blows up the stale formulas of trauma memoir, implicating us in a family's most intimate and terrifying moments with candor and cool precision. The book...

In his first collection since 2013′s “Tenth of December,” Saunders brazenly piles on his trademark techniques: fantastical carnivals, snappy marketing slogans, heart-weary characters, and an unerring...

FICTION: Colin Barrett's radiant collection showcases a dazzling talent from the Emerald Isle.

NONFICTION: Ed Yong's luminous new book on animal senses expands our understanding of the web of life.

FICTION: Luis Alberto Urrea's captivating novel dives into adventures of female volunteers in World War II.