In his counterfactual Holocaust novel, Philip Roth transports his unresolved conflicts with American Jews into the Oval Office.

Ian McEwan raises big questions that his cold, controlling muse can’t answer.

Novelist Stephen Elliott unleashes his wounded innocence on Campaign 2004.

Never mind that the Rangers are on ice. The game itself is dying.

A ballyhooed Corrections knockoff from Down Under points up the stalled state of the social novel.

A Canadian general recounts his efforts to stop the Rwandan genocide—and then to remain sane.

Michel Houellebecq, France’s bard of sex and anomie, finds an unlikely kindred spirit in H. P. Lovecraft.