9 Writers You’ll Be Hearing About This Fall

by Maria Semple

This author is on her way to becoming a national treasure. Full review >

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by Ha Jin

The narrator ultimately realizes what an innocent he's been, and the reader shares the epiphanies of this pilgrim’s progress. Full review >

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by Zadie Smith

Moving, funny, and grave, this novel parses race and global politics with Fred Astaire’s or Michael Jackson's grace. Full review >

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by Michael Chabon

A heartfelt but sodden family saga. Full review >

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by Alan Moore

Magisterial: an epic that outdoes Danielewski, Vollmann, Stephenson, and other worldbuilders in vision and depth. Full review >

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by Jonathan Safran Foer

Sharply observed but perhaps a bit too sprawling, Foer's novel bites off more than it can chew. Full review >

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by Margaret Atwood

Deliberate and carefully built, this novel rarely pulls off true theater’s magic of transforming glitter confetti into fairy... Full review >

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by Ann Patchett

A satisfying meat-and-potatoes domestic novel from one of our finest writers. Full review >

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by Jonathan Lethem

In this tragicomic novel, nothing is ever exactly as it seems. Full review >

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