John Irving has long been one of America’s most distinctive and beloved novelists. With his new novel, “Queen Esther,” Irving once again returns to...
This week, from the modern master of noir James Ellroy, comes the new novel “Widespread Panic;” about the malevolent monarch of the 1950s Hollywood...
“Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today,” says a character in “The Vulnerables,” the ninth...