Much the same as her earlier books, 'Intermezzo' was greeted around the world as a literary event. Rooney still excels at dialogue and writing about...

Sergio De La Pava’s novel “Every Arc Bends Its Radian” is a detective story that takes a strange turn in Colombia’s dark underbelly.

As a Sally Rooney fan, I first discovered Paul Mescal when he played Connell in the BBC adaptation of Normal People alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones....

As Paul French argues in a new biography, the future Duchess of Windsor’s year in China was less lurid — and more interesting — than her critics...

In a new biography, Peter Ames Carlin chronicles the rise of an indispensable band and the evolution of its music.

Yang Shuang-zi’s “Taiwan Travelogue,” a National Book Award finalist, is a nesting-doll narrative about colonial power in its many forms.

In “The Magnificent Ruins,” an Indian expatriate reunites with her estranged family after her grandfather unexpectedly made her heir to his...

In “Stranger Than Fiction,” Edwin Frank maps a path from Dostoyevsky to Sebald, finding mystical power and surprising ties among 20th-century...

In his novel “States of Emergency,” Chris Knapp doesn’t just tighten the distance between our inner lives and the world around us; he erases it.

WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Caraval meets Throne of the Fallen in this spicy dark romantasy where a necromancer needs help from a dangerous phantom to win a...