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.

In Ken Kalfus’s 9/11 satire, the war at home has never been nastier.

John Updike’s Terrorist puts us in the head of a man with 72 virgins on his mind.

Curtis Sittenfeld’s post-Prep novel.

With this clone-clogged novel, Michel Houellebecq proves definitively that he’s no Céline.

Philip Roth confronts age and beauty, and turns—well, not exactly sentimental, but surprisingly warm.