Shallow Sargasso Sea
/Can you improve on a classic? A new novel retells George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda — but much more is lost than gained in the attempt.
Read MoreOur Year in Reading 2014
/Our unabashedly bookish editors and friends look back on some of the highlights from 2014's reading.
Read MoreDown and Out in Luanda and Lisbon
/Novelist António Lobo Antunes' books are searing and wildly original indictments of Portugal's needlessly protracted and bloody colonization of Angola.
Read MoreLiterature is Dead, Long Live Literature
/Is the death of literature finally dead? If not, it's been dealt a healthy blow by Gregory Jusdanis' Fiction Agonistes, even it art does have to “justify itself in a way not necessary before.”
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