Andrew Sean Greer was elated, if a little confounded, when his 2017 novel “Less” received the award. Now he’s following it with a sequel, which he knows might raise some eyebrows. So what if it’s unseemly?
In “Lessons,” the hero is seduced by his piano teacher when he’s 14, then abandoned by his wife while he passively watches history unfold. Are these events connected?
In her Y.A. thriller “I’m the Girl,” Courtney Summers uses a murder mystery to explore pressing questions about female empowerment.
In her memoir, “Dinners With Ruth,” the NPR journalist writes about their parallel ascents in fields that were not friendly to women.
In his new collection, “Two Nurses, Smoking,” David Means derives power from revealing the workings of his craft.
In “Blood & Ink,” Joe Pompeo explores the gory Hall-Mills case and the tabloid nation it spawned.
Gwendoline Riley’s novels “My Phantoms” and “First Love” consider the sway and scourge of family ties.
A comprehensive study of human waste one writer explores the possibilities — for global health, inside every flush.
Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi’s novel in stories unfolds across centuries, continents, political parties and a tight group of friends.
At a time of social turmoil, Luke Mogelson’s “The Storm Is Here” explores how we got to this point.
In “The Mosquito Bowl,” Buzz Bissinger examines the Pacific theater through the lives of several athletes who served.
A regular nominee for the Nobel, his books were as popular as they were lauded, filled with themes of mystery, betrayal and the moral weight of the past.
In the solo play “Remember This,” David Strathairn portrays Jan Karski, a witness to the Nazi genocide during World War II.
John T. McGreevy’s exhaustive “Catholicism: A Global History From the French Revolution to Pope Francis” explains how debates within the church got so fierce.
Very hard, if Jonathan Dee’s new novel, “Sugar Street,” is any guide.
“Life’s Work” is a memoir of outrageous youth, creative obsessions and ruinous habits.
Kate Beaton headed to the tar sand fields of Alberta saddled with loans and in need of cash. She found a job — and the book she “was always going to make.”
A writer escapes the usual expectations by leaving the city for a house of her own in rural Denmark.
Her best-known creation was a sendup of a certain kind of female stock character. But Ms. Noomin rendered her with compassion, and used her to tell important stories.
Fictional characters, too, are saddled with college loans, and struggling to keep the story of their lives moving forward.
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