Q&A

A devastating condition left Susannah Cahalan in a hospital bed, unable to speak or move. In her riveting new memoir, she explores what went so wrong.

Writer Barbara Mutch initially took the self-publishing route with her debut novel about the close friendship between a white woman and her housemaid's daughter in South Africa.

Clare Wald is a famous South African author, a virtual recluse who spends her days dwelling on her role in the death of her sister and regrets concerning her daughter, who long ago went missing.

The debut author of The Snow Child talks to us about her love of Alaska, the scariest thing that’s happened to her in the wild, lessons of life and love, and the importance of choosing joy — even though we can’t always make up the endings to our own stories.

At 24, Shani Boianjiu was one of the youngest recipients of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award. Her debut novel wowed us with its exhilarating, assured voice and its fresh stories about three young women who, on the cusp of adulthood, are thrust into compulsory service in the Israeli military.