Book Reviews

By showing the impact it's had in the past, Adam Gopnik presents liberalism not only as a moral adventure but also as a necessity in an age of resurging autocracy and rampant bigotry.

Russell's new story collection encompasses everything from a boy in love with a bog body to a woman trying to get out of a bargain with the devil — it's unlike anything you've ever read before.

C.M. Kushin has delivered a nuanced, in-depth, loving look at the complicated singer/songwriter, one that helps cement him as one of the most complex and captivating music figures of our times.

Pulitzer prize-winning David Maraniss immerses himself in family records and interviews with relatives of others to piece together how his parents paid for supporting communism in their youth.

Max Porter's propulsive, original new novel is set in a small, seemingly idyllic English village that quickly turns darker when the whimsical young son of a newly-arrived couple goes missing.

The storylines in Lindsey Drager's new novel take place across a millennium, from a version of Hansel and Gretel wandering the woods in 1378 to a girl fetching water on the dying earth of 2136.

Joanne Ramos builds her own experience into this story of a young Filipino woman who ends up on a seemingly cushy "gestational retreat" where women — called "hosts" — carry babies for rich families.

Sonali Dev's new novel — about an Indian American surgeon who falls for a multiracial British chef — has elements of Austen's classic, but it's also a sensitive examination of class and privilege.

Jared Yates Sexton's book is critically important to our historical moment: It crackles with intensity and refuses to allow the reader to look away from the blight that toxic masculinity has wrought.

Ted Chiang's new collection is jammed with brilliant ideas — but it also makes time to take one single fascinating notion and examine it in depth, in stories that are never too long or too short.