This tale of a 60s college dropout driving across the US to avoid being sent to Vietnam is committed to both readerly pleasure and literary artifice

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Against the backdrop of a stifling polluted Delhi, two sets of siblings go to war over family inheritances

Gustave Flaubert’s first three novels, Madame Bovary, Salammbô and L’Éducation sentimentale, were all published by...

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

A father searches for his missing daughter at a business park, only to become a living ghost in a corporate nightmare

This language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm. Vuong...

This language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm. Vuong...

In the first novel from the author of We Move, descendants of a proscribed intercaste marriage are connected across continents and centuries

Families are at war in the new India, in a novel raising complex questions about patriotism, nationalism and how the country is changing

A literary star is born: The Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst is a dazzling coming-of-age story about a sensitive boy