Kathleen Rooney

The jacket copy of Louise Erdrich’s salient new page-turner, “Future Home of the Living God,” calls her “a writer of startling originality.” Considering her prolific output, that assessment seems, if...

In sheer scope, certain natural disasters outstrip all quantitative efforts to describe them. Undoubtedly, the data on the Tohoku earthquake can help to express the vastness of the catastrophe: On...

Jeffrey Eugenides' new collection may be called "Fresh Complaint," but the stories themselves are less fresh and more retrospective. The book consists of an array of material ranging from 1988...

Camille Bordas' first two novels, "Les treize desserts" and "Partie commune," came out in France in 2009 and 2011, respectively. She has just released her first book in English, "How...

Nicole Krauss' highly anticipated fourth novel, "Forest Dark," is preceded with a variation on the standard this-is-a-work-of-fiction disclaimer: "References to real people, events, establishments and organizations or locales are intended...