Jami Attenberg's fantastic new novel Saint Mazie is about a hard-partying maneater named Mazie Phillips-Gordon. Mazie's a real pe...

An anthropologist love triangle in 1930s New Guinea? Lily King's novel Euphoria sounded a bit too soap-opera-ey for me — not exactly ...

Chicago-set novels are a bone fide literary Kryptonite for me — I can't resist 'em. Here are two great recent ones. The Making ...

Childhood friends Sally and Bernice have the most noble intentions — they endeavor to raise their children, George and Irene, so that when...

(This post originally appeared on RoscoeBooks' blog .) We’re 1/3 of the way through 2015. Amazing! But for my money, the best 2...