Jess Walter is one of a very few "phone book" writers to me — by that I mean, he could write the phone book and I'd still read...

I expected Yaa Gyasi's sophomore novel  Transcendent Kingdom  to be heavy. It's about a Stanford neuroscientist named Gifty who grap...

File this one under "wheelhouse novel" for me. Teddy Wayne's new novel, Apartment , is about two dudes who share an...wait for...

If you've read your Bill James, you'll know "the index of self-destructive acts" is a humorously titled baseball statisti...

John Boyne is the consummate storyteller. His last two novels, The Heart's Invisible Furies and A Ladder to the Sky were both brillian...