Tate Cowlishaw is late for another faculty meeting when he discovers the body of Scoot Simkins, dean of Parshall College. Cowlishaw might be legally blind but sees that a man with three bullets in his head didn't put them there himself. The police…
Imagine being told you're destined for greatness—but when you're on the brink of success, you drop the ball. Such is the case for The Art of Fielding's protagonist, Henry, whose baseball superstardom is jeopardized by a disastrous throw. Strangely,…
If linguists are interested in the subconscious patterns behind everyday language, then the unfiltered and so beautifully mundane nature of informal internet writing is a boon for insights about how language changes, writes linguist, podcaster, and…
Originally published in 1977, Jane Gardams Bilgewater is an affectionate and complex rendering-in-miniature of the discomforts of growing up and first love seen through the eyes of inimitable Marigold Green, an awkward, eccentric, highly intelligent…
It has been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel. It's been even longer since any of his students have shown promise. Enter Angela Argo, a pierced, tattooed student with a rare talent for…
The charming and sensitive and slightly mischievous Lord Sebastian Flyte comes from a far more privileged world than our protagonist, Charles Ryder. When they become best friends while studying at Oxford, Charles is more in love with Sebastian's…
Readers will sense years of reflection built into every sentence of musician Zauner's debut memoir, which began as a 2018 New Yorker article. After losing her mom to rapidly advancing cancer when Zauner was in her midtwenties, the author finds…
Four years after their college graduation, three best friends and former roommates reunite at the wedding of a fourth. Celia, Bree, Sally, and April shared a dorm at Smith College, where they learned to buck patriarchal traditions and count on one…
Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the Midwest ... His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life,…
From the New York Times bestselling author of You Should Have Known and Admission , a twisty new novel about a college president, a baffling student protest, and some of the most hot-button issues on today's college campuses.
Naomi Roth is the…
Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who…
They insist they are just a group of friends, yet they funnel millions of dollars through tax-free corporations. They claim to disdain politics, but congressmen of both parties describe them as the most influential religious organization in…
Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of…
When Greer Kadetsky is a freshman in college, she runs into Faith Frank, an influential feminist thinker, in the bathroom. After a warm exchange, Faith hands her a business card. Greer lets it sit in her room for years, until she's a college grad…
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and a finalist for the National Book Award: Alison Lurie's supremely entertaining masterwork about two American scholars, both alone in London, who find romance in…
Evvie, Maggie, and Topher have known each other since university. Their friendship was something they swore would last forever. Now years have passed, the friends have drifted apart, and none of them ever found the lives they wanted - the lives they…
