Nicholas Mancusi

Mancusi’s debut novel, A Philosophy of Ruin, will be published in June 2019.

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Salman Rushdie Makes Fairy Tale Feel Like History

'Victory City,' the author's first book since he was attacked, will be published in early February

By Nicholas Mancusi

Cormac McCarthy Returns With 2 New Novels

The author's first works of fiction in 16 years are companion novels 'The Passenger' and 'Stella Maris'

By Nicholas Mancusi

Lidia Yuknavitch Mines the Lives of People on the 'Verge'

Lidia Yuknavitch, author of such celebrated books as The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, once presented a viral TED talk titled “The Beauty of Being a Misfit.” The characters in Verge,...

By Nicholas Mancusi

Jeanine Cummins’ 'American Dirt' Is a Harrowing Tale of Immigration, Family and Memory

Jeanine Cummins’ highly anticipated fourth book, American Dirt, opens with the kind of massacre that has become terribly familiar to those forced to live in the cross fire of Mexican drug cartels. At her niece’s...

By Nicholas Mancusi

Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte Is a Fantastical Dream Within a Dream

Quichotte, the Booker Prize long-listed 14th novel from Salman Rushdie, is pitched as a “Don Quixote for the modern age,” but the book–a brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder–is a far more ambitious exercise than mere homage.The...

By Nicholas Mancusi

A Puma in the Airplane Bathroom, a Wikipedia Page Deleter and More in Chuck Klosterman's Latest

Chuck Klosterman has long been a celebrated sports and culture writer, producing prolific nonfiction for major outlets and helping to launch the beloved website Grantland with Bill Simmons. Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction, Klosterman’s first...

By Nicholas Mancusi

Mark Haddon's Porpoise Is an Epic Hero's Tale Buoyed by Its Heroines

The Porpoise opens with action. The new novel from Mark Haddon, whose 2003 hit The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was the basis for a Tony-winning play, begins with Maja, pregnant wife...

By Nicholas Mancusi

Gingerbread Is a Twisty Take on Old Tales

It would be impossible to discuss Gingerbread, the sixth novel from Helen Oyeyemi–named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists in 2013–without the mention of fairy tales. Just a few of the new book’s familiar...

By Nicholas Mancusi

A Spy Thriller Like You’ve Never Read Before

A good spy must be comfortable leading two lives at once. Marie Mitchell, the young FBI intelligence officer at the heart of Lauren Wilkinson’s thrilling debut novel American Spy, is forced to lead many more...

By Nicholas Mancusi

Crossing the Afghan Wilderness in 99 Nights in Logar

After six years of Marwand’s living in America, his homecoming to Afghanistan is not off to a great start. Nearly as soon as the 12-year-old boy returns with his family to their relatives’ compound in...

By Nicholas Mancusi

The Electric New Novel In Our Mad and Furious City Paints a Must-Read Portrait of London

Novels that display a command of a particular voice as their most distinct feature can often fail by the same token, feeling like mere ventriloquism. This is decidedly not the case with Guy Gunaratne’s brilliant...

By Nicholas Mancusi

This Novel Asks What to Do When Your Sister Keeps Killing Her Boyfriends

Korede, the practical young nurse in Lagos, Nigeria, who serves as the narrator of Oyinkan Braithwaite’s buzzy and darkly comedic debut novel My Sister, the Serial Killer, can’t seem to signal her affections to Tade,...

By Nicholas Mancusi
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