New editions of his “hard” novels show an obsession with furtive desires and misdeeds—and an uncanny obliviousness to the horrors under his nose.

Her characters grapple with mean, stubborn, and lonely parents, and work out how to grow old without turning into them.

A lightly spoiler-filled conversation with the author about his new novel, Vigil, climate change, and redemption.

Namwali Serpell’s new book embraces the uneasy, unexpected, and defiant elements of her life and work.

What We Can Know imagines a collapsed society, devoid of art and ravaged by rising waters.

The author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie often spoke of a woman whose life mirrored her own but ended tragically.

The Hungarian author’s intricate and complex style has aggravated some and deterred many. Until now.

Angela Flournoy’s The Wilderness follows four friends through personal and political upheavals.

The Möbius Book explores love, faith, and cliché—​but its experiments in form don’t live up to their promise.

If Strout was once a master at portraying quiet lives in a big way, she now relies on easy plays for emotional connection and tidy resolution.

At the heart of “Our Evenings” is the recognition that Britain had something beautiful once and threw it all away.

“Rejection” is a panorama of deviance, degradation, and isolation.

Dinaw Mengestu’s novels, layered with crisis and heartbreak, show a different side of the nation’s capital.

A far-from-exhaustive guide to the books that our critics recommend this fall

“Intermezzo” is Rooney’s most somber novel, more attentive to loss and irreversible change.

Fury not only drives the embittered wife at the heart of “Liars,” it influences the novel’s very form.

Adelle Waldman’s “Help Wanted” makes the case for retail warehouse work as a subject worthy of serious fiction.

Lexi Freiman’s novel about a canceled writer skewers pieties left and right.

Climate change made Lydia Davis rethink our relationships to each other, close and distant.

“The Fraud” is a courtroom drama about an impostor, set against the backdrop of British imperialism. But the most suspect characters of all are the writers.