Fiction
A writer who finds beauty in everything
Prize-winning poet Ocean Vuong explores America's wounded psyche
Who owns Franz Kafka? The mysterious battle over the surreal author's estate
The battle over Kafka's legacy is worthy of one of the author's surreal novels
When China’s dream becomes a nightmare
In Ma Jian’s vision of China the past has never truly been addressed
Sarah Moss's new novel cements her reputation as one of our best novelists
Ghost Wall is a masterful piece of writing exploring family, sexuality and history
Alexia Arthurs's stories are imbued with a tender nostalgia
The author has been praised by Zadie Smith—and rightly so
The games we play—in life and love
Game Theory is a neatly-crafted 21st-century take on a genre of literary fiction—the light-hearted, plot-driven romp—that has drifted out of fashion
Sarah Perry's new novel Melmoth ties itself in knots
Melmoth is a book obsessed with morality, but littered with internal contradictions
Philip Roth and the search for a Jewish subject
Roth and the Jewish-American novelists who followed him had very different attitudes to their cultural inheritance
When violence echoes down the ages
An ex-US soldier's novel about the US Civil War and its aftermath is an ambitious exercise in Southern Gothic
Meg Wolitzer’s incisive and very funny new novel on modern feminism
Wolitzer has been unjustly overshadowed by her male rivals
How one man's killing changed a nation
The shock waves from the assassination of Colombia's Jorge Eliécer Gaitán can still be felt today
The Odyssey from Circe’s point of view
This arresting novel needs more sex