For nearly 50 years, readers have expected fictional experimentation from the acclaimed Hawkes (The Frogs). In his amusing, slight 17th novel, however, the experiment takes an indistinct shape--a bit Continue reading »
Perry’s enchanting latest (after The Essex Serpent) blends a ghost story with a meditation on astronomy and loneliness anchored on the periodic reappearances of Halley’s Comet. Continue reading »
Messud (The Burning Girl) draws from her own family history for this exquisite multigenerational saga of the Cassars, a pied-noir clan exiled from Algeria by the country’s Continue reading »
Richards, a former background vocalist for Whitney Houston, debuts with an electrifying tale of Ella Fitzgerald in the years before she was discovered on “Amateur Night” at the Continue reading »
In the beautiful and haunting latest from Phillips (Disappearing Earth), two 20-something sisters contend with economic precarity and their mother’s terminal illness on Continue reading »