Short Novels Dominate International Booker Prize Nominees
The majority of the books nominated for this year’s International Booker Prize, the prestigious award for fiction translated into English, are under 200 pages long. Only one is over 300…
Spicy, Sparkling New Romance Novels
Novels have always reflected technology. How we write fiction changed after the invention of photography, radio, film and email. This month we look at two romance novels that make a…
Best Serial Killer Novels, According to S.A. Cosby
I think every crime and mystery writer has four types of novels they will inevitably write in their career: a murder mystery, a heist novel, a novel of revenge —…
Best Gothic Thriller Novels, According to M.L. Rio
Horror is having a moment. Once confined largely to Halloween, or at least to October, “spooky season” has evolved into a monthslong phenomenon — and our hunger for the frightful…
Tom Robbins, Whose Comic Novels Drew a Cult Following, Dies at 92
Tom Robbins, whose cosmically comic novels about gargantuan-thumbed hitchhikers, stoned secret agents and mystic stockbrokers caught hold of millions of readers in the 1970s counterculture, died on Sunday at his…
Tom Robbins, Whose Comic Novels Drew a Cult Following, Dies at 92
Tom Robbins, whose cosmically comic novels about gargantuan-thumbed hitchhikers, stoned secret agents and mystic stockbrokers caught hold of millions of readers in the 1970s counterculture, died on Sunday at his…
4 Gripping New Detective Novels
By Stephen Spotswood A new Pentecost and Parker novel has arrived! A frabjous day in the world of crime fiction. Spotswood’s fifth installment in this beloved series, DEAD IN THE…
2 Novels for People Who Really, Really Love Cats
Dear readers, Every so often four French words come back to haunt me: “Elle connaît la vie.” They seem innocuous enough: “She knows life.” But what if I told you…
2 Novels for Cold Weather
Dear readers, We’re in the midst of a cold snap on the East Coast. I’m writing from under a stack of blankets, hot-water bottle at my twice-socked feet, wrapped in…