Bookworm

In Lydia Millet's novels, characters pass from the comedy of daily life to the beauty of visionary experience.

Journalist Amy Wilentz's admiring and sober portrait of post-earthquake Haiti...

The aimless hero of Antoine Wilson's second novel takes the world at face value and wishes to impart wisdom to his unborn son, after a life of suspended childhood himself.

Oliver Sacks on the neuropsychology and literature of hallucination, and what this disorienting medical condition reveals about the nature of the mind and human condition.

Burns reflects on the eerie spaces and dark themes that populate his graphic novels, as well as the nature of suspense that does not necessarily resolve into explanation.

A ghost story about the weave of storytelling itself, written in sparse fragments of dialogue punctuated by faint embroidery, grim illustrations, and blank spaces.

Two artists find themselves in an inexplicable and unhappy marriage in Christine Schutt's new novel written in hypnotic prose.

A conversation with cast members about this revelatory new take on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, "The Great Gatsby."

David Mitchell traces the consequences of greed from the beginnings of imperialism far into the future and the end of civilization...

Novelist and social critic Chris Kraus on her latest novel, where romance and social redemption collide in post-Patriot Act America.