Set in the period after a breakup, the novel contains moments of sharp analysis that appear, at times, to endorse this ...

Claire-Louise Bennett, a leading purveyor of cerebral and largely plotless novels, returns with her third book.

Animals loom large in the novels of Sigrid Nunez. "The Friend," which won a National Book Award in 2018, addresses mourning with the help of a Great Dane. "Mitz" from 1998 is the biography of a tiny ...

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Over the past decade or so, an influential set of female novelists has been circling a shared question: Given how often women are forced to understand themselves as fundamentally in relation to others ...

Michelle de Kretser first stunned me in 2020 with her small, perfect tribute “On Shirley Hazzard,” a brief work of outsize wisdom. But de Kretser had by then already earned fine notoriety with her ...