Sarah Stodola

From a National Book Award winner’s raw yet elegant memoir to an architect of the modern Internet who died during the 9/11 attacks.

From a newly translated 1972 classic about women in the Caribbean to the latest in Benjamin Black/John Banville’s crime series.

From a novel of Brooklyn neuroses to what happens when evangelicals take over an Alaskan national park.

From a 1980s literary superstar’s return to a study of American trailblazers with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.

Obese characters used to be there for comic relief, but as our waistlines expand, fiction writers are starting to take them more seriously. Sarah Stodola weighs the state of obesity in the novel.

This week, from a childhood interrupted by war in Sri Lanka to the glory days of food reviewing.

A Dutch novel by Herman Koch has already sold more than a million copies worldwide. But can it take America? By Sarah Stodola.

Bret Easton Ellis unleashed a string of nasty tweets on the late David Foster Wallace, but it’s not the first literary assault on Twitter.

From Jack Kerouac’s newly published first novel to Irene Nemirovsky’s forgotten work, 10 novels that were thought lost but then found. By Sarah Stodola.

<p>Lovers have penned their passions to one another for centuries. In <i>Love Letters</i>, the British Library has collected some of the more memorable missives.</p>