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Novels

A collage of book covers

To Understand the Present, Read These 10 Political Novels from the Past

These powerful political novels from the past century—spanning countries and contexts—offer fresh insights into the urgent issues shaping our world today.
By Nick Hilden
A grid-like collage of book covers tipped at an angle

The Best Books About Time Travel, From Classics to Modern Favorites

The genre explores some of our most intriguing questions as humans: what our future might look like, and how our history influences our present and future.
By Leah von Essen
A collage of book covers

The Best Climate-Focused Speculative Fiction

Sci-fi and speculative fiction has long used imagined futures to push us to reflect on present-day challenges.
By Leah von Essen
Alexandra Kleeman's debut novel comes out next month. (Photo: Sasha Maslov)

Alexandra Kleeman’s Debut Novel Is the Weirdest Book You’ll Read This Summer

By Matthew Kassel
New York participants in National Novel Writing Month turn the solitary activity of writing into a group activity (Nicole Puglise/New York Observer)

20,000 New Yorkers Just Tried to Write a Novel In A Month

By Nicole Puglise
Atticus Lish, left, and Giancarlo DiTrapano, the editor of Tyrant Books. (Photo by Aaron Adler for The New York Observer)

The Son Also Writes It: Atticus Lish’s Roundabout Path to Literary Success

By Asher Brown-Pinsky
Eat's interior (Facebook).

Greenpoint Restaurant Debuts Silent Suppers for the Not-So-Loud Crowd

By Órla Ryan
Lionel Shriver.

Read All About It! Or… Don’t: Lionel Shriver’s New Novel Disappoints

By Daniel D'Addario
Paul La Farge. (Photo: Carol Shadford)

Thinking Outside the Book: Paul La Farge's Luminous Airplanes Takes Off Online

By John Williams

Almost Amis

By Christian Lorentzen

Does the Novel Have a Future? The Answer Is In This Essay!

By Tao Lin

Blake Butler and What Happens When a Novelist Lives on the Internet

By Michael H. Miller

Book Review: In “The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore,” Benjamin Hale Monkeys Around

By Jesse Barron

Ghosts in the Glades: Karen Russell’s Dirty Magic Realist Debut, Swamplandia!

By Alice Gregory

Gary Shteyngart Hates the Information Age But Will Autograph Your iPad Anyway

By Nate Freeman

Franzen Glasses Thief Reveals His Identity in Gripping Pulp Crime Narrative

By Nate Freeman

British Novelists Miffed at Books Written in That Gauche Present Tense

By Nate Freeman

In Doctorow’s Brilliant ‘March’, Writer Finds Humanity in War

By Lee Siegel
A black and white portrait of a middle-aged man, looking directly at the camera with his chin in his hands.

John Updike, Champion Literary Phallocrat, Drops One; Is This Finally the End for Magnificent Narcissists?

By David Foster Wallace
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