Miranda Popkey’s début novel, “Topics of Conversation,” opens in Italy, in 2000. The unnamed narrator, twenty-one and set to begin graduate coursework in the fall, has been brought along on a wealthy ...

Philip hadn’t just presented Jin with a surprising new wish to have a child; he’d also been struggling to indulge one of her emergent longings. “Philip, I wish you’d hurt me,” she says early in the ...

R.O. Kwon's latest novel "Exhibit" centers on a photographer, an injured ballerina, and their instantaneous — and intense — relationship. She speaks to NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about desire and taboos. In ...

In a new novel told in interlinked stories, Dylan Landis revisits a dauntless family she has written about since 2009. By Joan Silber Joan Silber’s most recent book is the novel “Mercy.” When you ...