Annabel Gutterman

Sigrid Nunez’s New Novel Paints a Beautiful Portrait of Pain and Loss

It’s September 2017, and an unnamed middle-aged writer attends a lecture at...
It’s September 2017, and an unnamed middle-aged writer attends a lecture at a college. Her ex-boyfriend, an author, is speaking about the bleak future of humankind. He presents the growing threats to civilization—cyber-terrorism, climate change,...

The 42 Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2020

For the publishing industry, the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic...
For the publishing industry, the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic meant that many books slated for spring and summer of this year were moved to the fall. Now, the last months of 2020 will...

Luster Captures the Discomfort of the Third Wheel in an Open Marriage

After being fired from her job in book publishing, Edie, the narrator of Ra...
After being fired from her job in book publishing, Edie, the narrator of Raven Leilani’s blistering debut novel Luster, accepts an invitation to live in suburban New Jersey. It’s there that Eric, the white middle-aged...

Here Are the 12 New Books You Should Read in July

What does change really look like? It's a question at the center of many of...
What does change really look like? It's a question at the center of many of this month's best new books. In Blacktop Wasteland, a mechanic who worked hard to move on from a life of...

A Mother Examines the Costs of Her Desires in Want

Elizabeth, the exhausted narrator of Lynn Steger Strong’s potent new novel,...
Elizabeth, the exhausted narrator of Lynn Steger Strong’s potent new novel, Want, was in her second week of college when the Twin Towers fell. In graduate school, she met her husband-to-be, who worked for Lehman...

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