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.

The charmed, tortured writer’s life of Gay Talese.

A novelist who’s imagined the end of the world turns to an even more apocalyptic period: adolescence.

Macaulay Culkin on his first novel, Michael Jackson, and the self-consciousness of fame.

The confessions of an obit addict.

Marshall Berman’s history of Times Square hops, skips, and two-steps all over the twentieth century.