Tag: autumn books 2024

A novelist whose million-dollar debut was sunk by one review corners the critic who wrote it, and their six-minute fight goes viral. Robinson's sharp, funny romance is really about the fear of being disliked, though its online villains are flat and the late crisis is contrived.

The Swedish Academy has named Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson the 2026 Nobel laureate in literature. The citation explained, her life and books, the context, and the best place to start reading her.

A fifty-eight-year-old novelist drives ten thousand miles around America with a French-speaking poodle and reports what he finds. Much of it did not happen, which Penguin now says in the book itself, and the question is what that does to a travelogue people love.

A spoiler-free review of Dive Bar at the End of the Road by Kelley Armstrong: a stormy Michigan detour, a pileup against one fallen tree, and a roadside bar where every stranded driver meets the thing they fear most. How the machine works, where it creaks, and who should take the detour.