A Prize Novel Full of Truths That Stretch Believability
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"White on Black," which won Russia's premier literary honor last year, details the Soviet Union's abuse of the handicapped.
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Caryl Churchill's stunning new play is a gripping dramatic consideration of what happens in a world where people can be cloned.
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Michael CrichtonÂs new un-put-downable thriller is based on real-life genetic, legal and ethical aberrations.
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John Patrick Shanley  spins a pretty decent yarn in "Doubt," his Pulitzer  Prize-winning play about, in the words of one character: What  do you do when you're not sure?
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Daniel Mason: The story behind "The Piano Tuner," Daniel Mason's debut novel, has become, in itself, the stuff of fiction.
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A new and lucrative literary prize has just been started, with some unusual credentials for the winner: The book must be unpublished and the author must not have an agent.
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Think you have the next big novel? So do the hundreds of writers vying in a contest at Amazon.com.
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The literary master's dazzling, dizzying 1,085-page new novel is not for those looking for a snack
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Think you can trade your way to riches? Try a dose of reality.
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Plot twists in Lauren Groffâs book are certainly intriguing enough to captivate readers. The trouble with âThe Monsters of Templetonâ is that its complications seem nonstop.
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What are the facts? What's only fiction? Roy Lewis explains.
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If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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"Bleeding Kansas" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 448 pages, $25.95), by Sara Paretsky: The city of Chicago plays such an integral role in Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski mysteries that it's hard to imagine her setting a novel anywhere else.
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Tom Wolfe's new novel feels as if its author were merely going through the motions instead of really trying to capture the raucous carnival of American life.
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A new literary prize was launched on  Thursday with a top award of $100,000 for one lucky unpublished  U.S. writer, but publishing insiders warned that the $85 entry  fee makes it akin to a lottery.
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Sometimes, when you're living through an event, you can be too close to what's happening to realize the magnitude of it.
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Topping best-seller lists this fall are novels by popular authors who use fiction to dissect a slice of American culture and politics. Michael Crichton's new novel, State of Fear, might be the most provocative and controversial of them all.