OLM Favorites: Prayers for the Stolen
/The plight of young girls in slavery-blighted Mexico is the crux of a harrowing novel by Jennifer Clement.
Read MoreMoments of Being: Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction
/Woolf’s short fiction is under-appreciated, but in its outpourings of place and feeling we find the style and rhythm that also created her great experimental novels.
Read MoreBook Review: The Big Book of the Continental Op
/All of Dashiell Hammett's stories and novels featuring the Continental Op, collected in one volume for the first time.
Read MoreA Bygone Present
/An eerie atmosphere and finely-watched details are among the strange strengths of Fiona Mozley's odd debut novel Elmet - and among its weaknesses.
Read MoreMeta-Pleasure
/The bewildering literary project author Mark Danielewski has undertaken - 27 mammoth and genre-defying novels in one series - continues.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Reality is the product of the most august Imagination”
/The 22nd in Lee Child’s superlative Jack Reacher series finds him in top form and a first entry from H.B. Lyle promises to be a captivating new addition to the genre.
Read MoreBook Review: The Big Book of Rogues and Villains
/The latest enormous anthology from Otto Penzler features the dandies of the demimonde, the stylish thieves and ruthless killers of popular fiction.
Read MoreTell Them They’re Not Trees
/How can one be both a Jew and a Romanian? This quandary is at the heart of Mihail Sebastian’s brilliant novel For Two Thousand Years, now in a sparkling new translation.
Read MoreMemory Sickness
/Madeleine Thien's Dogs at the Perimeter - getting its first US publication - uses the Khmer Rouge atrocities as a backdrop against which to explore its characters' various losses.
Read MoreBook Review: Lightning Men
/Racially charged 1950 Atlanta is the setting for Thomas Mullen's brutal, terrific new crime thriller.
Read MoreBook Review: The World of Tomorrow
/The fates of three very different Irish brothers in prewar Manhattan intertwine in Brendan Mathews' impressive debut novel.
Read MoreBook Review: The Future Won't Be Long
/An '80s club kid wises up and gets all sad and melancholy in Jarett Kobek's follow-up to this surprise hit "I Hate the Internet"
Read MoreBeyond “Ma”
/A new novel re-imagines the beloved character of "Ma" from Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" books.
Read MoreSearching for Him
/Zinzi Clemmons' much-discussed debut novel blurs the line between memoir and fiction; Britta Böhler reviews What We Lose.
Read MoreSecond Glance: It by Stephen King
/As a new adaptation of Stephen King's 1986 novel It hits theaters, a critic takes another look at the novel and its underlying conflicts.
Read MoreThe Clean Light of Morning
/It wasn't a fat, sick, wife-killing madman who came to the English throne in 1509 - as a new book reminds readers, it was a glorious teenage prince.
Read MoreBook Review: The Party
/A smart new novel looks back through fractured viewpoints at the dramatic events of a party at an English country house.
Read MoreBook Review: Judgment at Appomattox
/The bitter final weeks of the American Civil War form backdrop of Ralph Peters' dark, powerful latest novel.
Read MoreBook Review: One Summer Day in Rome
/The lives of five visiting Americans are forever changed by their short but eventful stays in the Eternal City.
Read MoreBook Review: The Paris Spy
/The unsinkable Maggie Hope is on the case again in Susan Elia MacNeal's latest historical whodunit - this time set in Nazi-occupied Paris.
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