Against the Day is exhausting, twisted, and paranoid. But that doesn’t mean Pynchon can’t also be fun.

Laura Kipnis engages in a very ambitious analysis—what ails women?—but fails to deliver a cure.

In his new novel about a Sudanese refugee, Dave Eggers delivers nothing short of genius.

Andrew Sullivan strips conservatism to its core, slicing out the fundamentalism. But his most interesting argument is with himself.

Can notorious pickup artist Neil Strauss really leave the game behind?

Orson Welles eats his biographer.

From whence does the sublime emerge? In his wonderful new novel, Memorial, Bruce Wagner has some ideas.

Why the latest chatter about friendship doesn’t feel very relevant to New York.

Winkie, Clifford Chase’s bizarre first novel, is far more than a one-note indictment of human-rights abuses. It’s also a parable, a bedtime story, and a phenomenal character study of a teddy bear.

Georges Simenon, prolific genius of literary reduction, takes readers on a very bad road trip.