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Marilynne Robinson’s demanding novel confines characters� and readers�to Christian doctrine.

The dapper novelist takes a bravura tour through the sexual wilderness of the American university.

The postcolonial master’s new novel takes a bleak, didactic turn.

Seth Mnookin goes inside the paper of record’s 2003 meltdown�and uncovers much inadvertent mirth.

Alan Hollinghurst’s fourth novel is a scathing examination of the sexual, racial, and class fault lines of the Thatcher era.

Jonathan Lethem fixates on adolescence, while Michael Chabon comes to terms with maturity.

No one would ever mistake Alice Munro for an author of delicate sensibilities.

Michel Faber has a striking talent for addressing lurid themes without resorting to the clichés of genre. .

Novelist Stephen Elliott unleashes his wounded innocence on Campaign 2004.

Stephen King goes 3-D.