I've been pretty erratic in the frequency of posts the last several years, and so I wanted to introduce a new feature here this year. Th...

In Juan Martinez's debut novel, Extended Stay , an opening scene of unimaginable real-world horror leads into a screamingly terrifying n...

Last week, after nearly three months of reading John Irving's mammoth 900-page novel The Last Chairlift a few pages a day, I texted a f...

If you read only one Sri Lankan novel this year, let this be it. Here's a quick syllogism to summarize The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida ...

Mirroring Christmas creep, it feels like these "favorites of the year" lists are coming out earlier and earlier. I'm already l...