Set in 1915, @danchaon.bsky.social's spellbinding new novel, "One of Us," explores American marginalization and violence via telepathic twins in a traveling circus. Just out from @henryholtbooks.bsky.social. Here's my rave review for @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/b...

Patricia Lockwood's expressionistic if scattered "Will There Ever Be Another You" details one woman's struggles with Long Covid. Out tomorrow from @riverheadbooks.bsky.social. Here's my review for @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

👇 💫 Very fortunate that @hamiltoncain.bsky.social reviewed Ian McEwan’s brilliant new novel, What We Can Know. A lovely review brimming with insight and praise that captures the essence and payoffs of McEwan’s dystopian vision.

Print, glorious print! Today's @latimes.com:

Ian McEwan fans, rejoice! The Booker laureate returns to form in "What We Can Know," his engrossing twist on dystopian fiction. Out next week from @aaknopf.bsky.social. Here's my rave for @bostonglobe.com, with thanks to @katekilla.bsky.social for the opportunity. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/17/a...

The author meets the moment: Jill Lepore's "We the People" is an essential guide to our embattled Constitutional order. And so beautifully written! Out tomorrow from @liveright.bsky.social. Here's my review for @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Stephen Greenblatt's erudite "Dark Renaissance" evokes the of Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare's literary rival. Out next week from @wwnorton.com. Here's my review for @bostonglobe.com, with thanks to @katekilla.bsky.social for her editorial guidance. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/04/a...

'Twas awesome to collaborate with @katekilla.bsky.social and Marion Winik on the Boston Globe's fall books preview. Bibliophiles, rejoice! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/21/a...

What a wonderful and in-depth review from the great @hamiltoncain.bsky.social

I had a blast reading @shteyngart.bsky.social's dystopian romp, "Vera, or Faith," out from Random House. Here's my review for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-k...

Another review in this Sunday's @bostonglobe.com is @hamiltoncain.bsky.social's smart take on THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST'S DAUGHTER by the masterful Peter Orner. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/12/a...

Peter Orner's new novel, "The Gossip Columnist's Daughter," is both haunting and a fun-as-hell read. Out next week from @littlebrown.bsky.social. Here's my review for @bostonglobe.com, with thanks to @katekilla.bsky.social for her editorial guidance. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/12/a...

I adored Nicholas Boggs's epic new biography of James Baldwin, out next week from @fsgbooks.bsky.social. An amazing feat of biography and cultural history. Here's my review for @stribgoingout.startribune.com: www.startribune.com/baldwin-a-lo...

@hamiltoncain.bsky.social calls BLACK MOSES @calebgayle.bsky.social "eloquent" & "engrossing." "Gayle does more than just rescue a forgotten yet crucial figure; he places McCabe at the center of radical liberation." @riverheadbooks.bsky.social @startribune.com www.startribune.com/edward-mccab...

Dying to read FONSECA, the new novel by @jfkane.bsky.social, based on Penelope Fitzgerald's time in Mexico. Expertly reviewed by @hamiltoncain.bsky.social for the @bostonglobe.com, where it will be in print on Sunday. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/05/a...

As a Penelope Fitzgerald fan I had a blast reading @jfkane.bsky.social's absorbing novel, "Fonseca," which recreates a mysterious episode in the British writer's life. Here's my review for @bostonglobe.com, with thanks to @katekilla.bsky.social for her guidance. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/05/a...

Ed Park delivers banger upon banger in his brilliant collection, "An Oral History of Atlantis," out next week from Random House. Here's my rave for @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I adore Sophie Elmhirst's "A Marriage at Sea" and you will, too: equal parts real-life castaway tale and poetic exploration of marriage. Out from @riverheadbooks.bsky.social. Here's my review for @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

I fell hard for @lauriestories.bsky.social's "The Aviator and the Showman" and you will, too: it's a glorious work of narrative nonfiction. Out next week from @vikingbooks.bsky.social. Here's my review for @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Lee Cole's gorgeous, devastating new novel delivers on the promise of his debut. Here's my rave review for @washingtonpost.com. Just out from @aaknopf.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Set in the Pacific Northwest, @jesswalter.bsky.social's buoyant "So Far Gone" seeks a better America amid our many conflicts. Out Tuesday from @harperbooks.bsky.social. Here's my review for @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/b...

Hop aboard Caroline Fraser's "Murderland," a wild ride of a book that expands the boundaries of narrative nonfiction. Out next week from @penguinpress.bsky.social. Here's my rave review for @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Merry prankster, political gadfly, class snob, thought leader of the Republican party: Sam Tanenhaus's "Buckley" captures the many guises of the rancorous conservative. Here's my review for @bostonglobe.com, with thanks to @katekilla.bsky.social for guidance. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/03/a...

Susan Choi packs a wallop in her complex new novel, "Flashlight," out tomorrow from @fsgbooks.bsky.social. Here's my review for @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Bibliophiles: don't miss Madeleine Thien's "The Book of Records," a beautiful brain-twister of a novel, just published by @wwnorton.com. Here's my review for @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Yet another literary jewel from the Emerald Isle! Here's my review of Donal Ryan's "Heart, Be at Peace" for @nytimes.com. Out next week from @vikingbooks.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/b...

I adore @katiekitamura.bsky.social's gorgeous new novel, "Audition," set in NYC's theater world, a deconstruction of form, marriage, and family. Out tomorrow from @riverheadbooks.bsky.social. Here's my review for @startribune.com: www.startribune.com/audition-kat...

I had the pleasure of reviewing @joemungoreed.bsky.social's sublime new novel, "Terrestrial History" for @washingtonpost.com. Out tomorrow from @wwnorton.bsky.social. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Jennifer Haigh's absorbing "Rabbit Moon" captures the struggles of one Boston family in the aftermath of a hit-and-run incident in Shanghai. Here's my review for @bostonglobe.com with thanks to @katekilla.bsky.social for her editorial guidance. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/a...

Once again the great @carlzimmer.com delivers in his magisterial new work, "Air-Borne," out from @duttonbooks.bsky.social. Here's my review for "On the Seawall": www.ronslate.com/on-air-borne...

@briancastleberry.bsky.social's "The Californians" is an exuberant romp through art of the American Century. Out Tuesday from @marinerbooks.bsky.social. Here's my review for @startribune.com. www.startribune.com/the-californ...

Scotland's "Nobel laureate-in-waiting," as Sebastian Barry calls her, delivers another masterpiece. Here's my review of Ali Smith's "Gliff" for @washingtonpost.com. Out from @pantheonbooks.bsky.social on Tuesday. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

"Alpers is at home with theory but prefers to stand in awe before Vermeer and Velázquez, absorbing, one-on-one, larger questions of chronology and technique": @hamiltoncain.bsky.social on Svetlana Alpers' IS ART HISTORY? via ON THE SEAWALL bit.ly/4aom00o

In which I rave about Aria Aber's "Good Girl," out next week from Hogarth. Here's my review for @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Set in 1980-81, Adam Ross's new novel, "Playground," is stuffed with gorgeous writing and spot-on period detail. Out next week from @aaknopf.bsky.social. Here's my review for @bostonglobe.com, with thanks to @katekilla.bsky.social for her editorial guidance. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/31/a...

I'm reading "Challenger" now and LOVING it. I was hoping Ross Perlin and Jonathan Blitzer would make this list but them's the breaks.

Hallelujah! Charles King's radiant "Every Valley" tells the engrossing backstory of Handel's "Messiah." Just out from @doubledayuk.bsky.social. Here's my review for @startribune.com: www.startribune.com/the-story-be...

As we close out the year, I’m thankful for the illumination and pleasures books offer. Here’s a list of twenty favorite fiction and nonfiction titles whose craft and language astonished me in 2024. (I will get to Hisham Matar’s My Friends soon.)/1

Idk what it is, but this picture fascinates me. JFK just pulled up to Appalachia and said, “I want you to tell me what you need.” Call me crazy, because yes, times are different, but I see the vision. We need more of this!

I'm toggling between Bluesky and the other place, but here's my @washingtonpost.com review of Niall Williams's gorgeously written novel, "Time of the Child," set in an impoverished Irish village during the Christmas season of 1962. Just out from Bloomsbury. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/1...

Fiction aficionados: check out Fiona McFarlane's A+ collection, "Highway Thirteen," linked stories that probe the decades-long impact of an Australian serial killer. Just out from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Here's my review for the Minneapolis Star Tribune: www.startribune.com/a-serial-kil...

Set on the Côte d'Azur in the mid-1960s, Jane Alison's "Villa E" explores the legacy of High Modernism as two architects duel over a masterpiece. An enthralling read and easily one of my favorite novels of the year. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/31/a...

Willy Vlautin's moving "The Horse" has a few narrative tricks up its sleeve--a truly original work. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/0...

Dinaw Mengestu's "Someone Like Us" beautifully probes the despair at the heart of one immigrant's American Dream. www.startribune.com/a-mysterious...

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's "Catalina" is a triumph of first-person narration. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/23/b...

Kevin Barry's ode to the literary western, "The Heart in Winter," confirms his status as one of the greatest talents in the Anglosphere. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Hiya, Bluesky bibliophiles! It's been a fruitful summer--here are some of my reading highlights. First up: Emily Nussbaum's brilliant cultural history, "Cue the Sun!" www.startribune.com/i-didnt-come...

'Twas a thrill to read/review Claire Lombardo's new novel, "Same As It Ever Was," for the New York Times. Out tomorrow from Doubleday. Many thanks to Liz Egan for the opportunity. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/b...

“Exquisite. . . . Soulful and assured, Fire Exit is the next step in an exciting, emerging career.” @hamiltoncain.bsky.social reviewed 🔥FIRE EXIT by @morgantalty.bsky.social in The Star Tribune! www.startribune.com/a-penobscot-...

'Twas a pleasure and a privilege to review Joseph O'Neill's terrific new novel, "Godwin," for the Boston Globe. Just out from Pantheon. Many thanks to @katekilla.bsky.social for the opportunity. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/06/a...