Artful

Ali Smith

Artful

How art, especially literature, illuminates life and love.

Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles: A Novel

Loss, love, and the line between truth and fiction.

Umbrella

Will Self

Umbrella

An intricate and ambitious novel that strives to capture the essence of modernism and its effect on contemporary society.

The Antagonist

By Lynn Coady

The Antagonist

This clever “e-pistolary” tale is also an exegesis on reading and writing fiction.

Tom Wolfe

Back to Blood

With idiosyncratic flair, the master reporter of the modern zeitgeist turns his sights to Miami and the human striving for status.

George Saunders

Tenth of December

George Saunders is an undisputed genius in cutting eloquent slices of dark, odd, familiar and too familiar.

Richard Peabody

Blue Suburban Skies

In these cinematic tales, a cross-section of humanity wrestles with love, art, loss and getting older in a world full of landmines.

Louise Erdrich

The Round House

The 2012 National Book Award winner for fiction, this exquisitely rendered picture of life on an Indian reservation, a tribal judge revisits the past and a brutal crime against his mother.