Novels

“Nocturnes for the King of Naples,” by Edmund White, stands outside current fashions, with its refined pleasures and its nuanced accounts of gay lives.

The classic midlife crisis, with its flashy sports cars and covert affairs, has become a cliché in itself. Miranda July’s novel “All Fours” is part of a new wave of fiction that’s challenging expectations of what middle age can be.

David Remnick asks R.F.K., Jr., where his run for President and his beliefs are coming from. Plus, Miranda July’s new novel explores marriage, desire, and perimenopause.

Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel, “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” tells the story of a grifter who goes to unthinkable lengths to assume a life style he covets. In the age of influencers, “Ripley” is more winning than ever.

The MacArthur-winning author on the worthwhile frivolity of the fantasy genre, how magic is and is not like a credit card, and why she hates to write but does it anyway.

In “Help Wanted,” Adelle Waldman turns her lens from literary Brooklyn to retail work.

The author talks about travel, letters you shouldn’t open, and how she chose Prague as the setting for her latest novel.

Now that the border crisis has migrated into blue cities, it is becoming impossible for the White House to avoid addressing a political liability. Plus, the author Sheila Heti’s new book.

The author, whose novel “Blackouts” won the National Book Award last month, talks about sex in fiction, censorship, and the pleasure of what goes on in the shadows.

In novels from “The Guest” to “Biography of X,” vaguely menacing wallflowers took center stage.

From Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” to Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla,” narratives about cloistered women contending with a new political reality have dominated the cultural landscape. Why do these stories hit so hard?

Lexi Freiman’s “The Book of Ayn” paints an obsession with the godmother of libertarianism as a useful but transient phase.

In the almost eight hundred pages that make up “Lies and Sorcery,” Elsa Morante wrote about women’s lives without apology or fear of ugliness.

In “The Long Form,” Kate Briggs turns the improvisational, immersive, sleep-deprived work of caring for a very young child into fiction.

A new book argues that corporate publishing has transformed what it means to be an author.

“Vengeance Is Mine” is a story of class conflict in the guise of a psychological thriller.

The writer helped define the modern spy thriller with his cynical, expertly observed stories of espionage. How will new revelations about his private life complicate his legacy?

The writer’s painstaking attention to the smallest units of language scales up to momentous questions about how errors of communication shape human relations.

“Loved and Missed” is a seductive, clear-eyed account of the delights and dangers of caring for others.

In Karin Boye’s “Kallocain,” the inner lives of women illustrate both the power and the vulnerability of the authoritarian state.