It's only fitting that Canadian author Margaret Atwood chose the sacrosanct British Museum as a venue to present "The Testaments" [...]

Ian McEwan’s darkly whimsical 15th novel is “Machines Like Me” (Jonathan Cape, 2019), a speculation on Artificial Intelligence that overflows [...]

The year 2019 marks the centennial of Turin-born Italian writer Primo Levi’s birth. "If this is a Man," a searing [...]

In Chicozie Obioma’s “An Orchestra of Minorities” (Little Brown, 2019), an invasive white culture is portrayed as eating away at [...]

In the short story collection "Friday Black" (Mariner Books, 2018), young American writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah delivers a scorching debut [...]

In “Your Duck is My Duck” (Harper Collins, 2918), the extraordinary American writer Deborah Eisenberg returns with six, novella-length tales [...]

Novelist Sakaya Murato's "Convenience Store Woman" (Portobello Books, 2018), a huge Japanese hit only recently translated into English, has quickly [...]

Rachel Cusk’s recent “Kudos” closes a brilliant trilogy of novels —beginning with 2014’s “Outline”— that was dubbed “Faye” by some, [...]

In San Francisco, "mid-level novelist" Arthur Less nears his landmark 50th birthday. Simultaneously, his young lover Freddy announces he’s getting [...]

Nighttime, a man wakes, dons a robe. Barefoot, he wanders the silent neighborhood. Perhaps he'll encounter "a magic sword… a [...]

The populist right's global political surge has led Italian publisher La nave di Teseo to reprint the English translation of [...]