The first collection by Bordas, the author of several novels in French and English, ranges in location from Chicago to Paris ...

This book is, for want of better phrasing, a bit too well-written. There’s virtually nothing to be thought or said about it ...

Our columnist on four noteworthy novels. Credit...Caroline Gamon Supported by By Alida Becker Alida Becker was an editor at the Book Review for 30 years. She was the first winner of the National Book ...

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The German writer Michael Lentz gives it a shot in “Schattenfroh,” stretching the limits of fiction in the process. By Dustin Illingworth Dustin Illingworth has written for The New York Review of ...

Slightly esoteric and definitely ambitious, “Audition” by Katie Kitamura is a novel full of tension and intrigue that, while well-written, forces you to read between the lines a little too much.

Be they sniper, pirate, orphan, anthropologist, labor unionist or craftswoman, the characters in this selection of new historical fiction strive to conceal painful secrets as readers journey from the ...