Jess Row’s novel explores the aftermath of a young activist’s death.

What makes a mother stay and her estranged daughter leave Appalachia?

“Nights of Plague” is the story of an epidemic entwined with nationalism, unrest, and reaction.

“Biography of X” is a search for a woman so powerful and prominent that no one really knew her.

A lifelong striver who wrote about lifelong strivers, Hazzard was perpetually dissatisfied with the world she grew up in.

In Ryan Lee Wong’s novel, a young activist gets caught up in his own idealism.

Her novels First Love and My Phantoms work a kind of magic, making stuck relationships at once believably maddening and oddly addictive. 

Moshfegh’s fourth novel gets unusually creative with excrement and brutality. To what end?

How much has to happen in a novel?

The three self-made men in his new novel, “Run and Hide,” struggle for authenticity in a world of new money.

The excitement around Bennett’s books lies in their willingness to circle back on themselves, lingering in uncertainties and contradictions.

Her encyclopedic historical novel “The Books of Jacob” takes us to a world before nationalism.

John Darnielle’s new novel, “Devil House,” probes the moral implications of investigating a cold case.

In Marlowe Granados’s “Happy Hour” and Christine Smallwood’s “The Life of the Mind,” upward mobility is elusive.

In “Inseparable,” Beauvoir revisited an intense relationship from childhood. Why did she decide not to publish it?

“The Promise” is a portrait of a society where words lose their meaning.

“The Sentence” inverts the “Indian burial ground” horror trope to make a new kind of story, in which white ghosts haunt the living.

Manhattan was the perfect subject for Barthelme’s comic fiction, a source of always-shifting relationships.

From his early novels to his final work, “Silverview,” le Carré captured the pervasive sense of being watched.

“Something New Under the Sun” is science fiction about celebrity, self-deception, and climate crisis, set in the very near future.