June 2017

The initial trigger for a novel is usually a picture - of a place, of a woman, of a situation. For one that's about to be released in September, The body, it was two brothers sitting in the living room. The eldest (around…

On the evening of June 9, 1937, Carlo Rosselli, an anti-fascist exile in France, and his younger brother Nello, a historian, are ambushed, shot and stabbed to death on a forest road near Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, a town thermal spa in…

At 61, Percival Everett has perhaps the lowest profile of any great American novelist now in his prime. He has published more than two dozen works of fiction and…