The Return / Hisham Matar
The Return by Hisham Matar During the days of popular revolt against Gaddafi’s authoritarian regime, Hisham Matar—the 47-year-old Libyan...
A Gentleman in Moscow / Amor Towles
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Elegantly crafted and dazzlingly clever, Amor Towles’s novel A Gentleman in Moscow transcends the...
The Ghost of Birds / Eliot Weinberger
The Ghost of Birds by Eliot Weinberger Half a dozen stories from the Arabian Nights open with an enigmatic, perhaps untranslatable...
Lincoln in the Bardo / George Saunders
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders I didn’t know what a bardo was before reading George Saunders’s new novel Lincoln in the Bardo,...
Driving Without a License / Janine Joseph
Driving Without a License by Janine Joseph One has come to expect quality from Alice James Books. The venerable New England cooperative...
You Should Pity Us Instead / Amy Gustine
You Should Pity Us Instead by Amy Gustine “Most serious and productive artists,” writes Joyce Carol Oates, “are ‘haunted’ by their...