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January 01, 1990 - January 14, 2013 + Bookworm
Zachary Mason 
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The Lost Books of the Odyssey (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Higher mathematics and logic problems have long intrigued fiction writers, including Zachary Mason. Both Lewis Carroll...
Jean-Philippe Toussaint
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Self-Portrait Abroad (Dalkey Archive); Running Away (Dalkey Archive)
French fiction had become austere and theoretical until Jean-Philippe Toussaint took it in the direction of the wacky,...
Yann Martel
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Beatrice & Virgil (Spiegel & Grau)
After recognizing that most holocaust literature is centered on personal testimony, Yann Martel decided to create an allegory about the...
David Shields and Ander Monson on the New Prose
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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Knopf) and Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir (Graywolf Press)
New web technologies (and the ever-increasing availability of information) have made possible a...
Ian McEwan
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Solar (Doubleday)
Along the way in our conversation about bad morals and good intentions, Ian McEwan dabbles in the background subjects of his new novel...
Anne Carson
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Nox (New Directions)
Anne Carson's brother ran away, and she never saw him again. After learning of his death some twenty years later, she assembled Nox...
Sam Lipsyte: The Ask
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In the midst of all his scandalous anger and shenanigans, it's the shape of a great sentence that keeps Sam Lipsyte's interest in writing fiction...
Chang-rae Lee
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The Surrendered (Riverhead)
Renowned for his novels about repressed, withdrawn characters, Chang-rae Lee new novel explores new ground....
John D'Agata
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About a Mountain (Norton)
In a culture whose major activities include consumption and the production of waste, John D'Agata ponders the adjacency of Las Vegas and...
Elif Batuman
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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Elif Batuman never intended to study literature, learn Russian,or learn...
John Ashbery
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Planisphere (Ecco)
John Ashbery has made a dumbfounding statement: he is afraid that sometimes "the language gets in the way of the music of a poem." ...
Adam Haslett
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Union Atlantic (Doubleday)While Adam Haslett's new novel tracks the underground movements of big money and global management, he still has his novelist's eye on the...
Joshua Ferris
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The Unnamed (Little, Brown)
Josh Ferris, who won a huge audience with his hilarious office novel, Then We Came to the End, has done an about-face...
Barbara Epler
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New Directions, the press that began by publishing Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and Tennessee Williams and which today gives us Roberto Bolaño, W. G....
John McPhee
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Silk Parachute (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)John McPhee, our nation’s premier essayist—the man who helped raise creative non-fiction to an art form—speaks about the intricacy of...
