Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Big hitter Peter F. Hamilton has a new sci-fi novel out this month – and Booker winner George Saunders ventures into speculative fiction with his latest book, Vigil ...

Science fiction can seem like an intimidating genre for the uninitiated, what with its fantastical tales of advanced technologies, otherworldly beings, and, yes, all that science. But in reality, ...

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We don’t get new novels from the “Four Letters of Love” and “This Is Happiness” writer as often as I’d like, but when they appear, they always are worth the wait. “Time of the Child” returns to the ...

Everything That Is Beautiful (Manilla, April) is Louise Nealon’s follow-up to her award-winning debut, Snowflake. Told ...

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Times — and The Times — have changed since the first Festival of Books was held in 1996. What hasn't is our commitment to this vibrant community of readers and writers, with the annual spring ritual ...

A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...