In May’s most exciting fiction releases, Kate Atkinson returns to characters introduced in her masterful award winner Life After Life, Chuck Palahniuk’s stories are collected for the first time, and Matthew Pearl writes a literary caper you won’t be able to resist.
In the mid-1980s Stephen King famously proclaimed, “I have seen the future of horror; his name is Clive Barker.” This was back when effusive praise from the notoriously blurb-happy author really meant something—the equivalent of Emperor Palpatine announcing that he was stepping down and promoting Darth Vader to head Sith. That gobsmacky declaration was all the convincing […]
This week’s new books feature a long-awaited book by one of the biggest names in sci-fi, the return of a horror master, and an exciting new fantasy that is already being hailed as an instant classic.
It can be a treacherous journey when an author decides—decades later—to resurrect a beloved character as the centerpiece of a new book. Is it desperation? Maybe simple fan service? Or something more organically grounded: a long-delayed reunion, characters coming alive once again for an adventure that will add to their legacy? Stephen King made us wait 36 years […]