Before I’d read any psychoanalytic texts, or attempted therapy myself, I was drawn to the practice for its facility with plot. This intrigue began in high school, when my mom went into training to ...

A fox's spirit, able to take the form of a woman, hunts for the man who killed her daughter in Yangsze Choo's new novel. Choo talks with NPR's Scott Simon about "The Fox Wife." Snow is a fox. Really, ...

A woman screams from her apartment. A kid introduces a new friend to the risky art of shoplifting. A car burns on the street, and no one sees anything. A baseball shatters a windshield. A group of ...

“You can slash a book,” says the narrator of Yiyun Li’s new novel, The Book of Goose. “There are different ways to measure depth, but not many readers measure a book’s depth with a knife, making a cut ...

Gabrielle Zevin didn’t expect a wide audience for “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” her novel about game developers. It became a blockbuster with staying power. By Alexandra Alter Five and a ...

Ottessa Moshfegh’s fifth novel, “Lapvona,” is set in a corrupt fiefdom plagued by drought, famine and, well, plague. Credit...Daniele Castellano Supported by By Hari Kunzru When you purchase an ...

Genres are the Sirens of literary criticism. They seem friendly and alluring, but they are dangerously elusive shape-shifters. You really have to lash yourself to the mast. There is also the problem ...

In July of 2020, a little less than six months after COVID-19 sent much of the world into lockdown, I reviewed three newly released books about the coronavirus pandemic for this magazine. Six months ...