Louisa Ermelino

With insight and wry humor, the ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ author’s provocative new collection, ‘Old Babes in the Woods,’ looks at life from both sides now.

‘The Covenant of Water,’ the decade-spanning new novel from the author of ‘Cutting for Stone,’ traces the story of India, medicine, and three generations of a strangely afflicted family.

‘Loot’ follows the destiny of a famous mechanical toy through the fortunes of its creator and world events.

A passionate love affair unfurls in East Germany as communism collapses and the prospect of reunification looms in ‘Kairos.’

In ‘How I Won a Nobel Prize,’ a student on the cusp of a scientific breakthrough follows her disgraced mentor to an island where bad behavior is the norm.

A mother and her young daughter face devastation and renewal in the aftermath of the Civil War in Phillips’s powerful and lyrical new novel.

At the center of Tan’s latest is a real-life murder in early-20th-century British Malaya and its attendant scandal.

For the bestselling author, motherhood, erotic love, and obsession all go hand in hand.

In mining mysteries and scandals of the last century for her fiction, the author hopes to connect with modern readers.

While the author’s novels have always explored life in Australia, her latest interrogates a chapter of the country’s history many people would rather forget