PRESTIGE DRAMA, by Séamas O’Reilly In recent years, a vibrant stream of writing has emerged from Northern Ireland concerning not just the Troubles, but also the...
Part of Clark’s subtlety is the way in which the category of “what Suzanna refuses to know” remains undefined. Is it, as her grandmother would have...
She was blond and he was dark-haired; they were almost photonegatives. She looked as if she’d been in Bergman films. He was, visually, America’s Camus —...
Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. This week’s challenge is focused on unfinished novels that their authors...
CHERNOBYL, LIFE, AND OTHER DISASTERS, by Yevgenia Nayberg “You have to share many things with others … but what you remember belongs to you and you...
CAVE MOUNTAIN: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks, by Benjamin Hale Benjamin Hale’s “Cave Mountain” begins as many true-crime stories do: with a missing...
JAPANESE GOTHIC, by Kylie Lee Baker In 2026, Lee Turner flees to the centuries-old wooden house his father has just purchased in Kagoshima Prefecture, in southern...
