Lily Tuck's new novel, The Rest Is Memory is a spare and heartbreaking story about a young Polish girl who perishes at Auschwitz. A victim of Hitler's plan to eradicate the Polish population,…

The protagonist of Kaveh Akbar's debut novel, Martyr!, wants to die. This is not, as you might think, the wish of an elderly man, or a person with a terminal disease, but the preoccupation…

In this extraordinary 500 page novel Murray examines the lives of a contemporary Irish family, and though the story contains many surprising developments, nothing within the plot feels arbitrary or…

What makes Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, a sprawling political novel by Lydia Millet, so extraordinary is that it succeeds in doing something that's nearly impossible. Through a perfectly…

In the opening of Bee Sacks' aptly titled story, "The Song of the Bow," two trans men watch through the window of a coffee shop in Brooklyn as two Haredim, or ultra-Orthodox men across the street talk…

James is Percival Everett's answer to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Like Huckleberry Finn, it is narrated by the eponymous character, in this case, Jim, the runaway…

Tessa Hadley's new collection of stories, After the Funeral, plumbs the depths of what we see, hear, and understand about our fellow human beings, dwelling on the private things people…

I was attracted to this novel because I had loved The Evening Chorus, Helen Humphreys's 2015 novel about a prisoner of war who maintains his sanity by observing a family of redstarts, a…

Is this it? Is this all there is? The men and women who populate Sue Mell's vital and exciting collection of stories, A New Day, are looking for the right experience and are always coming…

Leaving by Roxana Robinson is a novel about a marriage and the habituated assumptions made by its long term, well-off partners, Warren and Janet. When Warren falls in love with a woman…