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A comparison of my Booker Prize favorite, Douglas Stuart’s "John of John" to E.M. Forster’s "The Longest Journey" shows its worthiness

To love Marlon James’s exuberantly queer voice is the start of a lifelong romance

Rebecca Perry and John Updike share memories of reviled administrations

The familiar is a tease. Luke Kennard stands on the shoulders of a young Fyodor Dostoevsky.

To many in Gen Z, "The Things We Never Say" is unforgivably centrist. I found it politically audacious, but as art it’s not exactly "Middlemarch".

Hernan Diaz and Barbara Kingsolver, who shared the 2023 Pulitzer Prize, are back this week with new novels.

Hernan Diaz and Barbara Kingsolver, who shared the 2023 Pulitzer Prize, are back in the ring this week with new novels. NEXT WEEK, Septimus Carr will provide the play-by-play.

A concurrent reading of "Cranford" and "Scenes of Clerical Life"

Michelle de Kretser Looks for New Forms But Elif Batuman Has Already Been There

A Supplement to "Ishiguro & Murakami Float Ideas on the River of Metaphor"

Analyzing "An Artist of the Floating of the Floating World" on Haruki Murakami's Terms and "Killing Commendatore" on Kazuo Ishiguro's Terms

Confidence as America’s Chief Export in Henry James and Barbara Kingsolver

The Memoirs of Two Folk Rock Giants Recast Their Public Façades

What Nick Hornby and Michael Frayn Taught Me About the Artistic Life

"God Help the Child" as Unofficial Sequel to "The Bluest Eye"

or, Has Timothée Chalamet Even Heard of the Verse Novel?

Edition Anxiety and Haruki Murakami's "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World"