Rumaan Alam

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“Parade” turns the novel upside down.

“Kairos” is both a novel about the collision between two people and about the collision of two German lives.

Why does “Klara and the Sun” serve up its big questions so explicitly?

When Lucian Freud painted Paul, she felt reduced. When Paul paints her subjects, they are exalted.

His novel “Red Pill” portrays a liberal’s crisis at the approach of the Trump era.

Lots of writers have done the coronavirus essay. Smith has made a book of them.

Why her new novel, “Death in Her Hands,” strives to be gross

His new memoir dishes about fashion legends like Anna Wintour and Karl Lagerfeld and also makes the case for his cultural legacy.

An investigation into the most toxic book of a toxic season.

The Brooklyn Museum’s new show—now shuttered due to coronavirus fears—captures a time that has never felt so distant.

Deb Olin Unferth’s philosophical new novel tackles animal rights, industrial agriculture, and the fate of humanity.

Jeet Thayil’s new novel features a bereaved narrator, depression, and lots of drugs.

Nicholas Fox Weber’s new book connects the ubiquitous device to the canon.

Teddy Wayne’s fourth novel, Apartment, explores the complexities of male friendship.

Jenn Shapland goes in search of the novelist—and discovers herself.

A major biography and a recent film paint a picture of one of the greatest modern portraitists.

In a new memoir, Dan Peres reckons with his addiction and captures the halcyon days of a media empire.

This Brilliant Darkness wants readers to see strangers as people.

Scary movies can thrill us. Do they also have to mean something?

In the world of historical podcasts, hindsight is always 20/20.