The author of “Erasure” and “James” has spent his career running rings around his readers.

Her new novel “Pure Colour” investigates the eternal.

What made her so interested in cold-blooded, apparently motiveless killers?

The comic thriller “Squeeze Me” is set, like Hiaasen’s other books, in Florida—which turns out to make a big difference.

Jenny Offill’s Weather captures the dread of a global catastrophe.

How much does the French author owe his popularity to the rise of virulent nationalism?

The women in her new novel confront abuse and grapple with faith.

Her new novel captures a generation's beleaguered idealism.

Minae Mizumura's "Inheritance From Mother" takes on aging, family, and Japan's complicated relationship with the West.

Today's biggest novelists are throwbacks to a simpler time.

Salinger isn't the only one

Five films later, Hollywood still doesn't get Fitzgerald's novel

To Emily Dickinson, little besides love, human and divine, was worth writing about, and often the two seemed to fuse.