For the late, great novelist, American politics was one end-of-times after another.

The Jesus trilogy is an ambitious, unearthly reckoning with desire and disaster.

Kate Zambreno’s novel “Drifts” brilliantly evokes a hazy state of self-isolation.

The Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel centers on two very connected, very guarded lovers.

The Station Eleven author returns with another haunting novel.

For the characters in Miranda Popkey’s debut, opening up doesn’t always bring relief.

His new novel, “Find Me,” resists picking up where “Call Me by Your Name” left off.

A new collection of essays perfectly evokes the excitement and the anguish of young creative people in New York.

Differing versions of events compete and overlap in “The Man Who Saw Everything.”

The Nobel Prize–winning novelist recasts our relationship with the environment.

To convey the catastrophe of climate change, Amitav Ghosh had to break with realism.

In a subtle new work of autofiction, Ben Lerner takes on Trumpism.

“The Water Dancer” comes out of a powerful examination of the legacies of slavery today.

"Where’d You Go, Bernadette" is a travesty.

Four writers pay tribute to a great American novelist and groundbreaking intellect.

Wars, deaths, suffering women, and families and their discontents are the abiding themes of her novels.

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

“Abel and Cain” is about memory, how it’s made and remade, sequelized and turned into kitsch.

The Russian writer Maxim Osipov was best known as a medical doctor, until he began to publish arresting, empathetic stories of sickness and treatment.

The narrators in “Sing to It” get through pain with the smallest, strongest words.