fiction

Francis Spufford’s time-traveling fantasy asks what we’d sacrifice to rewrite the past.

Her spellbinding novel in stories transforms Baja California into a dreamscape of violence, longing, and hard-won grace.

Stephen Graham Jones’s theologically inflected horror novel just might be his masterpiece.

Tim Winton’s novel Juice tackles climate change, masculinity, and violence.

In Susan Gregg Gilmore’s new southern parable, 12-year-old Leonard buries his neighbors’ regrets alongside his own amputated leg.

Jason Mott’s wildly inventive novel depicts two Black American writers, an ocean apart. It’s up to the reader to decide how they’re related.

In Robert Baird’s debut novel, a religion scholar’s young son starts emitting a holy glow that might or might not be real.

Chaim Grade’s characters give voice to the questions, quarrels, and quiet devotions of European Jews on the cusp of the Second World War.

In Charlotte Wood’s novel, an atheist is driven by climate despair to an isolated convent, where she grapples with layers of grief.

Richard Price’s latest novel follows four characters, each affected by the collapse of a tenement building in East Harlem.

Novelist Richard Powers has written another love letter to the planet—in this case, the 99 percent of Earth’s biosphere that exists underwater.

Most reviews of Long Island Compromise blame the characters’ misery on their family’s wealth. But the reality of their predicament is far more serious.

Kristin Hannah’s novel is based on military nurses’ firsthand accounts of their experiences in Vietnam.

Amy Frykholm’s novel creates a fascinating interplay of Native people and settlers whose lives are complicated by intergenerational trauma.

Vinson Cunningham’s debut novel focuses on a campaign staffer’s indeterminate views, using them to shed light on the rise of a political star.

Reading The Hours in my husband’s hospital room, I was stunned by the novel’s incarnational imagery.

Zach Williams’s stories of everyday life are propelled by strange turns of events, like a dad discovering his son’s sixth toe in the bath.

Why are non-White characters so absent from this urban/suburban narrative?

Chigozie Obioma offers a narrative that transcends bullets and politics.

Rosalind Brown’s debut novel could be understood as a midrash on Montaigne’s metaphor of the mind as runaway horse.