Trine Tsouderos

How do you fit a zombie novel inside an immigrant story inside a coming-of-age tale? Ling Ma, an assistant professor of arts at the University of Chicago, accomplished this feat...

In his new novel, "The Italian Teacher," author Tom Rachman has succeeded in painting a vivid portrait of a man of such magnetic charisma that everyone he meets winds up...

Author Chloe Benjamin explores an age-old topic — the power of prophecy to shape a person’s life — with fresh eyes in her new novel, “The Immortalists.” While flawed, Benjamin’s...

I opened Elizabeth Berg’s new book, “The Story of Arthur Truluv,” on a rainy 40-degree November Saturday. The week had been as grim as the weather, beset with ongoing sexual...

Matthew Weiner is best known as the creator of “Mad Men” and a writer and producer of many episodes of “The Sopranos,” series beloved for their complex, warm, often humorous...

“The Revolution of Marina M.” is an often exasperating, strange story of a spoiled, entitled aristocratic girl coming of age during the Russian Revolution. And yet, despite its narcissistic heroine...

Ayobami Adebayo's debut novel, "Stay with Me," is a triumph — a complex, deeply felt exploration of love, marriage and family amid cultural and political upheaval in Nigeria from 1985...

In Joshua Ferris' compelling new book of short stories, "The Dinner Party," people constantly sabotage their own happiness by focusing on what was, what might have been, what could be....

Who are our parents, really? Why can't we see them clearly, as their children? What happens when a writer of enormous skill and compassion takes on his parents as a...

Elizabeth Strout's brilliant fictional memoir, "My Name Is Lucy Barton," casts a spell over readers, making them believe, after 200 pages of intimate writing, that they truly understand the main...