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Winkie, Clifford Chase’s bizarre first novel, is far more than a one-note indictment of human-rights abuses. It’s also a parable, a bedtime story, and a phenomenal character study of a teddy bear.

Georges Simenon, prolific genius of literary reduction, takes readers on a very bad road trip.

In Ken Kalfus’s 9/11 satire, the war at home has never been nastier.

John Updike’s Terrorist puts us in the head of a man with 72 virgins on his mind.

Curtis Sittenfeld’s post-Prep novel.

With this clone-clogged novel, Michel Houellebecq proves definitively that he’s no Céline.

Philip Roth confronts age and beauty, and turns�well, not exactly sentimental, but surprisingly warm.

The charmed, tortured writer’s life of Gay Talese.

A novelist who’s imagined the end of the world turns to an even more apocalyptic period: adolescence.

Macaulay Culkin on his first novel, Michael Jackson, and the self-consciousness of fame.