Moshfegh’s fourth novel gets unusually creative with excrement and brutality. To what end?

How much has to happen in a novel?

The three self-made men in his new novel, “Run and Hide,” struggle for authenticity in a world of new money.

The excitement around Bennett’s books lies in their willingness to circle back on themselves, lingering in uncertainties and contradictions.

Her encyclopedic historical novel “The Books of Jacob” takes us to a world before nationalism.

John Darnielle’s new novel, “Devil House,” probes the moral implications of investigating a cold case.

In Marlowe Granados’s “Happy Hour” and Christine Smallwood’s “The Life of the Mind,” upward mobility is elusive.

In “Inseparable,” Beauvoir revisited an intense relationship from childhood. Why did she decide not to publish it?

“The Promise” is a portrait of a society where words lose their meaning.

“The Sentence” inverts the “Indian burial ground” horror trope to make a new kind of story, in which white ghosts haunt the living.

Manhattan was the perfect subject for Barthelme’s comic fiction, a source of always-shifting relationships.

From his early novels to his final work, “Silverview,” le Carré captured the pervasive sense of being watched.

“Something New Under the Sun” is science fiction about celebrity, self-deception, and climate crisis, set in the very near future.

Beth Morgan’s “A Touch of Jen” is the latest work to reckon with a social media–fueled obsession.

In her rivetingly funny letters, the author of “The Lottery” transformed the stuff of daily life into magic.

The great discoveries of the age captivated his imagination. He almost always misunderstood them.

Narrated by an interpreter for a war criminal at the Hague, Kitamura’s new novel weighs connection and disconnection.

Joshua Cohen’s inventive new novel imagines Benjamin Netanyahu’s childhood, and digs deep into his father Benzion’s vision of Jewish history.

In Kathy Wang’s spy thriller, navigating the pressures of the workplace is a lot like espionage.

What ails democracy in her Supreme Court thriller, “While Justice Sleeps”?