Lost And Found
Andrew Sean Greer continues his comic epic of gay love and commitment in ‘Less Is Lost’
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FICTION
Do the Hoovering
What’s behind the mega-popularity of author Colleen Hoover?
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Nine Books To Escape With for Fall
Let’s put pandemic literature behind us with a cultural history of butts
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JK Rowling’s New Protagonist Is Nothing Like JK Rowling, says JK Rowling
The Ink Black Heart’s protagonist gets doxxed—and murdered—for stating her beliefs about gender
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More of the Best Novels Since ‘Ulysses’
The Times of London’s list was far from complete. We offer some additional, and maybe even better, choices.
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One More Big Score
‘Heat 2,’ a note-perfect book sequel to one of the greatest heist films of all time
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One Hundred Years of Robbe-Grillet
French auteur courted critical firestorms while taking fiction and film in new directions
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A Hot, Fun Gothic Mess
Sunyi Dean’s wild genre mashup, ‘The Book Eaters’
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You Can’t Persuade Me to Like the New ‘Persuasion’
The yassified Jane Austen adaptation has already bombed online
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Land of Extinction
The many delights of Ned Beauman’s ‘Venomous Lumpsucker’
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Werner Herzog Writes His Novel
The Japanese protagonist of the director’s fiction debut refuses to give up the fight of World War II
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The Old College Murder
‘The It Girl,’ a modern dark academia murder mystery from ‘the modern Agatha Christie’
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‘Young Mungo’ Covers Sadly Familiar Territory
A depressed queer teenager struggles in post industrial Glasgow, just like in Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize winner ‘Shuggie Bain’
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The Weight of ‘Zero Gravity’
Woody Allen’s new collection is too witty to be canceled
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Tracy Flick Returns
A tremendously enjoyable (and surprising) sequel to ‘Election’ from Tom Perotta
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