Beth Morgan’s “A Touch of Jen” is the latest work to reckon with a social media–fueled obsession.

In her rivetingly funny letters, the author of “The Lottery” transformed the stuff of daily life into magic.

The great discoveries of the age captivated his imagination. He almost always misunderstood them.

Narrated by an interpreter for a war criminal at the Hague, Kitamura’s new novel weighs connection and disconnection.

Joshua Cohen’s inventive new novel imagines Benjamin Netanyahu’s childhood, and digs deep into his father Benzion’s vision of Jewish history.

In Kathy Wang’s spy thriller, navigating the pressures of the workplace is a lot like espionage.

What ails democracy in her Supreme Court thriller, “While Justice Sleeps”?

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.