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British novelist Ruth Rendell died May 2 at age 85.

Novelist Ruth Rendell leaves behind dual legacy

May 9, 2019 at 5:24 p.m.

This week has seen many obituaries mourning the death at age 85 of Ruth Rendell, author of the popular Inspector Wexford mysteries. When asked in a 2013 Guardian interview how...

Review: ‘A God in Ruins’ by Kate Atkinson

May 9, 2019 at 5:23 p.m.

Kate Atkinson just keeps getting better. That's a hell of a thing to say of someone whose debut novel, "Behind the Scenes at the Museum," nabbed the 1995 Whitbread Book...

Review: ‘Early Warning’ by Jane Smiley

May 9, 2019 at 5:22 p.m.

In "Some Luck," the first book in Jane Smiley's ambitious planned Last Hundred Years trilogy, Rosanna Langdon delivered her fifth baby, Henry, completely alone, howling in an isolated Iowa farmhouse...

Review: ‘Gutshot’ by Amelia Gray

May 9, 2019 at 5:20 p.m.

Amelia Gray writes ugly, thrilling books. The body-horror tropes in her 2012 novel, "Threats," recalled at times the films of David Cronenberg. "Gutshot," her third collection of stories, pushes even...

Review: ‘The World Before Us’ by Aislinn Hunter

May 9, 2019 at 5:18 p.m.

The romance of the archive is a puzzling genre. A.S. Byatt's "Possession," in which archival research unearths a Victorian love scandal and causes modern-day entanglements, is exemplary; brilliant, but hardly...

Review: ‘Barefoot Dogs’ by Antonio Ruiz-Camacho

May 9, 2019 at 5:17 p.m.

Writing about the missing is an exercise in filling silences. The kidnapped Mexican patriarch at the center of Antonio Ruiz-Camacho's debut collection "Barefoot Dogs" doesn't make his appearance until the...

Review: ‘Our Endless Numbered Days’ by Claire Fuller

May 9, 2019 at 5:16 p.m.

Last year's newest translation of the unexpurgated first edition of "The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm" gave many English readers their first glimpse of the German...

"The Strange Case of Rachel K," a new collection of early stories from Rachel Kushner, offers a glimpse of the inspiration for her debut novel, "Telex From Cuba."

Review: ‘The Strange Case of Rachel K’ by Rachel Kushner

May 9, 2019 at 5:14 p.m.

In 2013, a firestorm raged briefly around Rachel Kushner's second novel, "The Flamethrowers." Kushner wrote about motorcycles and war and '70s New York in prose The New Yorker's James Wood...

Miranda July's debut novel, "The First Bad Man," is yet another worthy accomplishment in her multifaceted career.

Review: ‘The First Bad Man’ by Miranda July

May 9, 2019 at 5:11 p.m.

Nobody writes a conception scene like Miranda July. In "The First Bad Man," the debut novel by the ambi-talented writer, director and artist, a woman reads aloud from a website...

Review: ‘Get in Trouble’ by Kelly Link

May 9, 2019 at 5:09 p.m.

Come over here for a moment. Kelly Link would like to show you something. It's in the palm of Kelly Link's hand. Bend down and take a closer look. What...

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