In Hiromi Kawakami’s new science fiction novel, Earth is a place of surveillance, isolation and dread. The characters (and clones) are doing their...

In Hiromi Kawakami’s new science fiction novel, Earth is a place of surveillance, isolation and dread. The characters (and clones) are doing their...

"Reality is not always probable, or likely." That's the quote from the late Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges that prefaces Matt Haig's new novel, "The...

In Mason Coile’s new horror novel, “William,” an intelligent robot begins to lead its feckless creator to terrible places in the name of...

Elaine is a thwarted writer in 1950s upstate New York, on the brink of affairs and murdering her own child, in a claustrophobic novel full of Self’s...

In his new novel, Roddy Doyle revisits his character Paula Spencer, a woman managing some fraught feelings. Our reviewer had some fraught feelings of...

Garth Greenwell takes on pain and illness in his new novel, “Small Rain.”

Garth Greenwell takes on pain and illness in his new novel, “Small Rain.”

Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian fiasco.

Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian fiasco.