novelists

On the Shelf The Last Ranger By Peter HellerKnopf: 304 pages, $27If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support…

By HILLEL ITALIE - AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — From the moment he read Cormac McCarthy's “All the Pretty Horses,” James Wade knew he was…

Review A Line in the Sand By Kevin PowersLittle, Brown: 368 pages, $29If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support…

By HILLEL ITALIE - AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In the minds and official records of the publishing community, Sarah Thankham Mathews is a…

Shortly before settling into “The Novelist’s Film,” a tense, absorbing and finally enchanting new movie written and directed by Hong Sang-soo, I couldn’t help but cycle through a flurry of…

John Vercher is the author of the novels Three-Fifths and…

Christopher M. Cevasco is an author of both fantasy fiction and historical fiction. As someone with a foot in both worlds, he’s constantly surprised by the lack of crossover. “I don’t…

On the Shelf Oh William! By Elizabeth StroutRandom House: 256 pages, $27If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a…

When Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Oct. 7 — the first Black African writer since Nigerian Wole Soyinka won it in 1986 — you could almost hear the…

When author María Amparo Escandón moved to New York from Los Angeles in 2014, she’d often hear New Yorkers claim L.A. has no weather.“What do you mean there’s no weather in L.A.?!” she’d…