On our Best Fiction of 2025 list, Emma Pattee imagines Portland’s worst Earthquake in her debut novel Tilt ...

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Is fiction good for us? We spend huge chunks of our lives immersed in novels, films, TV shows, and other forms of fiction. Some see this as a positive thing, arguing that made-up stories cultivate our ...

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Ruth, the impish narrator of Kate Riley’s debut novel, is born into a little and little-known Anabaptist sect in Michigan. Riley, drawing on her own experience, feels no rush to lay out the group’s ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Homework: A Memoir by Geoff Dyer (Canongate/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) The award-winning author of ...

The editors of The New York Times Book Review bring you the best historical fiction of 2025, other new books we recommend, our latest reviews, World War II novels we love, books set in the 18th ...