Valerie Sayers

I indulged myself even as I missed the thrift stores of our youth, the temples of musty counterculturalism where the point was how cheap, how many times recycled.

Joanna Kavenna’s latest dystopian novel tackles surveillance capitalism and artificial intelligence with sharp satire, intelligence, and faith in the human spirit.

We are in the midst of an O’Connor revival, graced with O’Connor’s recently released prayer journal, and now, a new collection of letters.

Toni Morrison’s style is stately, not so much ornate as complex, not so much stentorian as insistent, authoritative, often fierce.

Lorrie Moore has written an engrossing critical compilation covering books, films, music, TV, and (for good measure) politics

Roddy Doyle’s latest novel, Smile, deftly channels Irish outrage at the sexual abuse crisis and its cover-up