Perdita, by sociologist Dylan Riley, is a beautiful attempt both to relive his marriage and to see the world through his late wife’s eyes ...

The latest novel by Tim Winton (twice shortlisted for the Booker prize) is Juice, and it begins in a deceptively familiar, even clichéd fashion. A man and a young girl in a futuristic ...

Nick Harkaway’s novel “Karla’s Choice” revisits the British spy George Smiley a few years after the construction of the Berlin Wall. By Michael Wood Michael Wood is an emeritus professor ...

Sally Rooney recently stunned the entertainment world when in a newspaper interview, she said her experience of adapting her much-loved coming-of-age novel Normal People for the BBC and Hulu left ...

What does a woman in midlife want? The opening scene of Susan Minot’s new novel, “Don’t Be a Stranger,” hazards an answer. Ivy—a writer, early fifties, divorced, devoted mother of a ...

This dark horror comedy is among the more interesting visual novel games we’ve come across as it switches between the usual anime, visual novel, story-driven gameplay you’d expect and retro ...

By Dan Fesperman Dan Fesperman is the author of “Winter Work.” His 14th novel, “Pariah,” will be published next year. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site ...

Based on Simon Stålenhag's graphic novel, The Electric State is set in an alternate future and focuses on a teenage girl (Brown) who realizes that a strange robot who comes to her has actually ...

The cruelty of a foxhunt reverberates throughout the novel, hanging over Nick and Joshua’s reluctant return to their Nebraska farm, where their father has called them to witness his dying.

Stephen King's first novel, Carrie — the story of a bullied telekinetic teenager who gets viciously pranked at prom — turned 50 on April 5. In honor of Carrie's 50th birthday (we sure hope ...