Ha” is the prizewinning first novel by Jennifer Dawson, an accomplished mid-20th-century chronicler of women and madness.

The Strength of the Few is an awe-inspiring, emotionally brutal and brilliantly constructed sequel in the Hierarchy series ...

His new novel, “Palaver,” observes how an expat in Japan and his visiting mother find “a new language and way of being that’s ...

The Michigan Daily Book Review's official predictions for the 2025 Booker Prize, from our winners to the most disappointing ...

Thomas McGuire, author of the 2019 award-winning novel “Steller’s Orchid,” has returned with a new novel of matching excellence. A longtime Alaskan, McGuire has applied his 30 years of commercial ...

Japan’s three historic nuclear events — the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II and the 2011 nuclear plant meltdowns in Fukushima — form a key backdrop for ...

One of the most moving scenes in any novel of war occurs on the first page of Nadeem Aslam’s “The Wasted Vigil” (2008), set in post-9/11 Afghanistan. Toward dawn, in a cavernous old house, a woman ...

Philip King grew up during the 1940s and 1950s in small town Ohio. He was a good young baseball player and a fan of the Cleveland Indians (now Guardians). If you are a supporter of that team you might ...

Unlike casual language learners — say, in a high school French class, or on Duolingo — for the characters in Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning “English,” language acquisition feels imperative. Set in ...