In Chelsea Bieker’s new novel, “Madwoman,” a woman is no longer able to keep the demons of her childhood out of her present.

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...

In Katherine Packert Burke’s debut novel, a woman is haunted by change while grappling with the death of a friend.

In Katherine Packert Burke’s debut novel, a woman is haunted by change while grappling with the death of a friend.

A 1966 novel captures a publishing world full of chronic malcontents, strategic lunches and ideas that mattered.

A 1966 novel captures a publishing world full of chronic malcontents, strategic lunches and ideas that mattered.

Mary Jane never “sat right” with the award-winning scientist and memoirist Hope Jahren, so she wrote a novel about “the real redheaded one.”

I'm always amazed at how Ellen Hopkins can convey so much in so few words, residing in a gray area between prose and poetry.

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