Dwight Garner

Already longlisted for the Booker Prize, Rachel Kushner’s “Creation Lake” — set in rural France — stars a ruthless American secret agent.

A new book chronicles the last 50 years of a notorious American tabloid.

The Irish city, once home to the likes of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, is known for its bookstores, libraries and pubs, where writers found inspiration over pints of Guinness.

Why our critic couldn’t put this book down.

Her new novel, “Intermezzo,” considers love in its various permutations.

In what the author says is his last novel, both a family and a society are on the verge of collapse.

John D. MacDonald was eerily prescient about the risks of human-driven climate disasters in the region.

Garth Greenwell takes on pain and illness in his new novel, “Small Rain.”

Tony Tulathimutte’s new stories center the young, alienated, unloved people you can’t stop watching.

In “Colored Television,” by Danzy Senna, a struggling writer in a mixed-race family is seduced by the taste of luxury that comes with house-sitting.