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Catherine and Heathcliff—now played by Robbie and Elordi—will prove each other’s undoing as well. Fennell teases out the tricky evolution of the characters’ deep bond, from steadfast…
I’m a rational person. I grew up in a family of scientists. My dad, who studied the brain, told me when I was a kid that Santa and God didn’t exist. (Don’t say anything at school, he…
In the beginning of Ha Jin’s new novel, “Looking for Tank Man,” a sophomore at Harvard seems to be on the verge of throwing her life away. Pei Lulu is the pride of her divorced parents.…
Before Tara Selter, the protagonist of “On the Calculation of Volume,” a series by the Danish author Solvej Balle, gets trapped in a time loop, she is one half of a unit called T. & T.…
On October 25, 2025, the writers George Saunders and Zadie Smith took the stage with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, for a discussion at the 26th annual New Yorker…
The Argentinean author Ariana Harwicz writes slim books that draw on a slim band of resources, as if she pulled them from a narrow row of diseased crops, or from the soil atop a shallow…
Plus he’s hot. He’s a hot Catholic priest who, in my mind, I was picturing Joe Alwyn the whole time. I want to see the portraits Wyeth makes of him. Ugh, I bet they’re beautiful. The book…
In Oliver Hermanus’s new film, “The History of Sound,” two young men at the New England Conservatory of Music meet in a bar, when one of them (Josh O’Connor) plays a folk song the other…
This week, The New Yorker is announcing the longlists for the 2025 National Book Awards, including Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction. Check…
When my twelve-year-old self picked up “I Who Have Never Known Men” from a church rummage sale in 1998, I was certain it was a book written for children. I don’t remember why. Maybe it…
The books of Michael Clune, or at least the ones written for a nonacademic audience, have focussed on very particular chapters of his life. “White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin” is a…
Sally Rooney's Normal People struck a chord with readers everywhere following its release. Through its achingly beautiful portrayal of young love, adulthood, and the ways people drift in…
Shōgun is the hit Hulu and FX miniseries that took audiences by storm, hitting streaming services in 2024 to unanimous approval from critics. The show is based on a novel by James Clavell,…
Amy Bloom’s latest novel, “I’ll Be Right Here,” tells the story of a single family across more than eight decades. The span of the book renders it, almost by definition, a portrait of how…
When I arrived at the novelist Richard Price’s five-story, nineteenth-century brownstone, in East Harlem, in December, the doorbell was broken. Price and his wife, the writer Lorraine…
The author page of “Next to Heaven,” James Frey’s new novel, breathlessly notes that Frey “was called America’s Most Notorious Author by Time Magazine and the Bad Boy of American…
“Northanger Abbey” is the least beloved of Jane Austen’s six novels. It also appears frequently in university-level literature classes. These two things are related. Completed largely in…
Apple TV+ has ordered a series based on Lars Kepler’s Joona Linna novels with Liev Schreiber, Zazie Beetz, and Stephen Graham attached to star. The untitled series has been given a…
Can a historical novel be morally serious, even tragic, and also playful at the same time? For a writer of fiction, history is a dangerous thing to play with—one doesn’t want to be trivial…
Have novels left anything unsaid about the internet of the past fifteen years? It feels as though they’ve exhausted the terrain, but perhaps they’ve just made the same points over and…
The writer Rumaan Alam has noticed that readers, especially as of late, can be quick to dismiss novels that have characters they find unpleasant. But “when a character on the page is able…
