Prolific author who combined formal experimentation with popular appeal and was a fixture of the New York literary scene
This autumnal work about a professor haunted by glimpses of his late wife is a riddling but deeply felt meditation on grief
Stark images of the sites of mass shootings punctuate this passionate account of the toll wrought by firearms
Rebecca Rose selects her mid-year reads
59 Productions captures the dizzying ingenuity of Paul Auster’s novel — but to what end?
Following a single protagonist down four separate paths, this wide-angled panorama is the author’s greatest novel
The novelist talks about political shock, parallel lives and publishing his most ambitious work as he nears 70
Reporters in ‘deadly peril’ following string of attacks amid a lukewarm response from government
The US novelist says that her new book, about a female artist spurned by critics, may be the ‘freest book I have ever written’
An old-fashioned literary exchange that upholds the sterling virtue of good writing
A tricksy yet unsparingly honest examination of the emotions of a man growing old
This gazette assembles a wealth of atmospheric literary snippets that evoke the ‘crush and heave’ of New York City
Amy Waldman’s debut novel is the most successful yet at making sense of 9/11
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