'Tumbledown'
A therapist finds a cast of patients that may just be saner. Drew Toal reads Robert Boswell’s new Californian novel.
Messianic
Fiona Maazel has achieved the rare double: a cult author writing about a cult. Drew Toal on her latest novel.
Angels and Demons
Novelist Victor LaValle’s The Devil in Silver combines religion, mental illness and horror, and shows how those three easily blend together. By Drew Toal.
Must Reads
From a young man in a coma inhabiting an afterlife, to one year in the lives of two young lovers.
Life of Cities
This week: the Paris years of Jackie O, Susan Sontag and Angela Davis, the symmetry and messiness of lost causes, the steampunk City of Bohane, and Adam Wilson is a writer to watch.
This week: The legends that made New York music, a book of short stories that capture nothing less than life, and a man heads south in Lydia Millet’s novel.
From a magical circus troupe to the perilous state of England, our reviewers pick 4 new novels that you won’t want to miss.