David Varno

In spring’s most anticipated novels, the bonds of families and friends are stretched to the breaking point and the past rears its ugly head.

We highlight a handful of excellent introductions to this year's Nobel Prize winner.

The season’s most noteworthy new releases include Thomas Pynchon’s latest, autofiction by Patricia Lockwood, and Mona Awad’s return to the Bunny-verse.

Among this spring’s most anticipated offerings are the latest novel from Susan Choi, about a father’s mysterious disappearance, and Colum McCann’s tale of transcontinental cables and the deep sea divers who repair them. Other noteworthy titles incl

Among this fall’s noteworthy titles are novels by Rachel Kushner, Richard Price, and Elizabeth Strout about people grasping for a sense of community in a changing world.

In her new novel, ‘All Fours,’ the multidisciplinary artist grapples with aging as it relates to desire, gender, and marriage.

In ‘Ways and Means,’ the debut novel from PW contributing editor Lefferts, NYU business student Alistair is on the run from his evil billionaire former employer as a former lover gets involved with a gay erotic art project involving MAGA gear.

Families reckon with life-altering events, artists transform themselves, and colonialism rears its ugly head in this season’s novels and collections. Plus, Native writers Tommy Orange and Morgan Talty follow up their breakout debuts.

With ‘James’ (Doubleday, Mar.), Everett retells Mark Twain’s ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ from Jim’s point of view.

The poet explores art, death, and sobriety in ‘Martyr!’—a novel he wrote with a little help from his friends.