The Sympathizer

Revolutionary promises acquire a different weight when they become a court ruling, a property claim, a job or a family loyalty. These novels follow that change, through civil conflict and the less...

For readers who enjoy espionage through the people doing the work and those made to live with its consequences. These novels follow recruitment, source handling, office rivalries, divided...

A useful change of mind often begins with a judgement that stops feeling adequate. These novels and memoirs make room for conflicting loyalties, incomplete knowledge and lives that resist a...

A persuasive voice can give you reasons to keep listening and reasons to keep checking. These books make that double attention rewarding through selective memory, self-defence, social ambition and...

A first novel can make its own rules about how a story should sound. These debuts offer comic abundance, compressed observation, lyric intimacy and sentences that take time to learn. The interest...

Treat this as a set of doors into different kinds of reading. Familiar novels sit beside translated fiction, memoir, poetry, science and stories told in pictures, chosen for a memorable voice, an...