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Solar (Doubleday)

Along the way in our conversation about bad morals and good intentions, Ian McEwan dabbles in the background subjects of his new novel...

Nox (New Directions)

Anne Carson's brother ran away, and she never saw him again. After learning of his death some twenty years later, she assembled Nox as a form of grieving....

In the midst of all his scandalous anger and shenanigans, it's the shape of a great sentence that keeps Sam Lipsyte's interest in writing fiction at fever pitch.

The Surrendered (Riverhead)

Renowned for his novels about repressed, withdrawn characters, Chang-rae Lee new novel explores new ground....

In a culture whose major activities include consumption and the production of waste, John D'Agata ponders the adjacency of Las Vegas and a proposed nuclear waste dumping ground...

Elif Batuman never intended to study literature, learn Russian,or learn to speak Uzbek. That's no life for a grown up!. And yet she fell passionately in love with literature...

Planisphere (Ecco)

John Ashbery has made a dumbfounding statement: he is afraid that sometimes "the language gets in the way of the music of a poem."  This is dumbfounding because what is there in poetry other than language?

Union Atlantic (Doubleday)
While Adam Haslett's new novel tracks the underground movements of big money and global management, he still has his novelist's eye on the intimacies, even the perversities, of eccentric individuals...

The Unnamed (Little, Brown)

New Directions, the press that began by publishing Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and Tennessee Williams and which today gives us Roberto Bolaño, W. G. Sebald and Anne Carson, deserves celebration. Editor in Chief Barbara Epler takes us on a guided tour of American’s pre-eminent literary publisher...