Ours, wrote the critic and essayist Megan O’Grady in 2019, is the golden age of historical fiction. Think of the greatest contemporary novelists, and many—Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Russell ...
Translated from the Finnish by David Hackston, this eloquent, impassioned novel uses the demise of a gentle mammal to chart ...
In contemporary publishing, novels fixated on the past rather than the present have garnered the most attention and prestige. The 68th National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street, 2017. On Friday, ...