Working, Working
/The indefatigable Joyce Carol Oates offers a wide variety of thoughts on books and the literary world in her new collection Soul at the White Heat. Britta Böhler reviews.
Read MorePassion Rules the World
/Boris Dralyuk's new translation of Isaac Babel's Odessa Tales brings its Jewish gangsters back to more vibrant life than ever. Robert Minto reviews.
Read MoreReindeer Meat and Polo Mints
/Vita Sackville-West's granddaughter gives us an intimate look at seven generations of her famous family.
Read MoreThe Secret Things of the Earth
/A new biography explores the complicated life of the writer who gave us "The Haunting of Hill House" and "The Lottery."
Read MoreEchoes of Narcissus
/A strikingly original new book explores what happens when our need to understand our experiences exceeds the stories we can tell about them.
Read MoreHis Majesty, the Not Excessively Cowardly
/He's forever linked in history with his punning nickname, but a new biography shows there was more to Æthelred than being "Unready"
Read MoreWrithing Bounty
/A gruesomely fascinating new book looks at the weird and unsettling phenomenon of venom in animal kingdom. Justin Hickey reviews.
Read MoreActually Existing Neoliberalism
/Andrew Brower Latz sums up and recommends Colin Crouch's trenchant critique of neoliberalism.
Read MoreIt’s A Mystery: “The dead can’t lie.”
/Alan Parsons' single-minded, two-fisted policeman sleuth Max Wolfe returns in The Hanging Club.
Read MoreInfinitesimal Jest
/Ian McEwan's latest novel has an ingenious premise--but does it deliver on its promise? Rohan Maitzen reviews Nutshell.
Read MoreAbsent Friends: An Intellectual All The Time
/An old book by a monk may be the best thing ever written about the practice of thinking. Robert Minto revisits The Intellectual Life.
Read MoreLove In Every Stitch
/A fascinating book explores the relationship between necessity and love in military knitting across the ages.
Read MoreStrange and Dark As It Is
/Fantasy author Rjurik Davidson returns with the second novel of minotaurs, magic, and political unrest. Justin Hickey reviews The Stars Askew.
Read MoreLoving American Philosophy: A Testimony
/John Kaag's memoir of personal engagement with American philosophy demonstrates its ongoing vitality. Kenyon Gradert reviews.
Read MoreNo Further Arrests Have Been Made
/The serial killer who stalked the streets of London in 1888 and became immortal under the name Jack the Ripper is the subject of a sumptuous new collection of fact and fiction.
Read MoreWorlds Undone
/The NYRB Classics reprints three seminal novels by the elusive author who wrote under the pen name Henry Green. Jack Hanson reviews.
Read MoreThe bowl that one fills and fills
/What has not already been written about Virginia Woolf? A new critical biography offers ideas about how to read both her work and her life.
Read MoreBodies in Trouble
/A new novel about a notorious Viennese clinic aims to do justice to the lives of those the Nazis declared were utterly without value.
Read MoreRead, Write, Love
/When Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri abandons English for Italian, she learns as much about herself as about her new language.
Read MoreLight Puppets
/In Moonstone, Icelandic author Sjón tells a story of 1918 Iceland through the longings and alienation of a sixteen-year-old orphan named Mani. Robert Minto reviews.
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