Ann Hulbert

A drowning haunts Susan Steinberg’s dark first novel about teenagers’ summer adventures.

Chris Power’s debut collection, ‘Mothers,’ reveals that maternity is an unsettling journey.

The 27-year-old author, Daisy Johnson, pulls off several marvels at once in her debut novel, which made the Man Booker Prize shortlist.

How The Atlantic’s literary editor turns a daily deluge of new books into magazine coverage.

Dorthe Nors’s newest novel, about a 40-something woman in Copenhagen learning to drive for the first time, is more profound than its premise suggests.

Educated by Tara Westover and The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder

In her new book, the historian Edith Sheffer investigates the medical pioneer Hans Asperger’s involvement in a Third Reich eugenics program.

She escaped the Rwandan genocide, made it to the U.S., and graduated from Yale. But there’s more to Clemantine Wamariya’s “brilliant fairy tale.”

Laura Smith looks to the story of a missing novelist to answer her own questions about how creativity and freedom can exist alongside love and stability.

Tara Westover’s coming-of-age story follows her upbringing in a survivalist family, and her decision to leave that life behind.

‘A Secret Sisterhood’ explores the women who influenced Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf.

Allegra Goodman’s novel tests its characters—a multiplayer obsessive, an artist, a high-school teacher—in ingenious ways.

Müller’s novel, set in the months before the Romanian regime’s fall in 1989, is her seventh to be translated for English-speaking audiences.

Larissa MacFarquhar writes about do-gooders who “open themselves to a sense of unlimited, crushing responsibility.”

In a group of novels that showcase a virtuosic interest in distinctive voices, Marlon James’s historical epic ultimately triumphed.

In a 1933 Atlantic article, the novelist shared her elaborate, self-aware approach to writing.

A classic book makes a comeback

More than half of community-college students never earn a degree. Here's how to fix that.