In a subtle new work of autofiction, Ben Lerner takes on Trumpism.

“The Water Dancer” comes out of a powerful examination of the legacies of slavery today.

"Where’d You Go, Bernadette" is a travesty.

Four writers pay tribute to a great American novelist and groundbreaking intellect.

Wars, deaths, suffering women, and families and their discontents are the abiding themes of her novels.

The women in her new novel confront abuse and grapple with faith.

“Abel and Cain” is about memory, how it’s made and remade, sequelized and turned into kitsch.

The Russian writer Maxim Osipov was best known as a medical doctor, until he began to publish arresting, empathetic stories of sickness and treatment.

The narrators in “Sing to It” get through pain with the smallest, strongest words.

Giacomo Sartori’s novel “I Am God” narrates the ultimate existential crisis.

Out of the trauma of war, Wolfe found redemption in Catholicism and his voice in futuristic, philosophical novels.

Her novels have always championed the overlooked point of view. But "Trust Exercise" takes on a riskier experiment.

James Lasdun’s "Afternoon of a Faun," about a rape allegation, bears an eerie relation to his memoir of a stalking.

The many varieties of misery in the dazzling short stories of Machado de Assis

Her new novel features a surprisingly hopeful autopsy of a failed relationship.

Marci Vogel’s new novella, “Death and Other Holidays,” presents a meditation on grief, memory, and renewal.

Her new novel "Those Who Knew" explores the prejudices, fears, and desires that are bound up with political impulses.

Anna Burns's Booker-winning novel takes on teenage girlhood, sectarian violence, and history's nameless actors.

The liberating disjointedness of Diane Williams’s very short stories

His new novel takes the reader on a boorish financier’s misguided journey of self-discovery.