the book show

Lauren Groff has long been one of the most daring and emotionally precise writers working today. Her new collection, ‘Brawler,’ returns her to the short story with a set of fierce, searching narratives about people pushed to their limits.

Lauren Groff has long been one of the most daring and emotionally precise writers working today. Her new collection, ‘Brawler,’ returns her to the short story with a set of fierce, searching narratives about people pushed to their limits.

C.J. Box has carved out a singular place in contemporary American fiction, blending mystery and the mythic landscapes of the West with characters rooted in moral complexity. His latest novel ‘The Crossroads,’ game warden Joe Pickett is discovered shot and near death while his family seeks justice.

C.J. Box has carved out a singular place in contemporary American fiction, blending mystery and the mythic landscapes of the West with characters rooted in moral complexity. His latest novel ‘The Crossroads,’ game warden Joe Pickett is discovered shot and near death while his family seeks justice.

Journalist Eugene Robinson has spent decades chronicling American democracy. In his new book, 'Freedom Lost, Freedom Won,' Robinson blends sweeping history with personal narrative, grounding the national struggle for civil rights in his own family’s story.

Journalist Eugene Robinson has spent decades chronicling American democracy. In his new book, 'Freedom Lost, Freedom Won,' Robinson blends sweeping history with personal narrative, grounding the national struggle for civil rights in his own family’s story.

Few contemporary writers have examined the inner life with the intensity and candor of Karl Ove Knausgaard. His latest is 'The School of Night.' In it, he interrogates memory, identity, art, and the meaning we try to impose on our lives.

Hailed by The Booker Prize judges as a 'fierce and philosophical interrogation of human existence,' Charlotte Wood’s 'Stone Yard Devotional' chronicles 'one woman’s inward journey to make sense of the world and her life when conflicts and chaos are abundant in both realms.'

George Saunders is one of the most original voices in American fiction. His new novel, 'Vigil,' follows Jill 'Doll' Blaine, an afterlife usher summoned to guide an unrepentant oil tycoon toward death. Over one wild night, Saunders confronts power, greed, climate reckoning, and mercy itself.

Matthew Pearl, the bestselling author of "The Dante Club" returns to fiction with a sharp, darkly comic novel, "The Award," that peels back the layers of literary ambition. It is about an earnest young writer trying to find his footing in a world teeming with literary aspiration, one where ambition can warp judgment, and where a single moment of recognition can tip a life off its axis.