Her new novel, “Second Place,” explores the limits of cool detachment.

Her new novel, “Peaces,” asks how much room we are willing to make for other people.

Megan Nolan’s novel is a compulsive story of desire, subservience, and self-annihiliation.

Has any other novelist lived a life so steeped in political intrigue?

Rampant capitalism and a search for identity collide in “My Year Abroad.”

Her newly reissued masterpiece “The Transit of Venus” gestures at vast and intricate political problems.

On “Fake Accounts” and the problems of millennial fiction

A new collection of stories edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell explores the line between good taste and desire fulfilled.

Ayad Akhtar’s novel “Homeland Elegies” confronts a culture that expects Muslim Americans to explain themselves.

Why is one of Turkey’s foremost novelists in jail?

Don DeLillo’s and Jonathan Lethem’s new novels imagine the end of electronic communication.

Her new story collection poses thorny questions and defies her critics.

Chelsea G. Summers’s “A Certain Hunger” is a toothsome morsel.

His new book, “Inside Story,” reveals his greatest strengths as a writer—though he seems to be unaware of them himself.

Written out of the traumas of exile and marriage, her novel “Divorcing” captures a divided self.

The much-celebrated debut novel is representative of a younger generation’s approach to age-old dilemmas.

Two books offer different approaches to the changing relationship between humans and nature.

Andrew Martin’s characters spend a lot of time gently mocking their own privilege.

Leigh Stein’s novel “Self Care” drowns wellness Instagrammers in their own moon juice.

When Ilze Hugo started writing about an outbreak, she thought she was imagining a far-fetched dystopia.