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The Complete Works of Primo Levi Edited by Ann Goldstein Liveright, 3,008 pages WHILE imprisoned in Auschwitz, Primo Levi had a recurring dream: 'Here is my sister, with some unidentifiable [...]

WHY HAVE Elena Ferrante's four Neapolitan novels--My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child--become such [...]

The End of Men: And the Rise of Women BY HANNA ROSIN Riverhead, 320 pages HANNA Rosin's The End of Men: And the Rise of Women , based on a [...]

Honey dew: Stories By Edith Pearlman Little, Brown and Company, 288 pages EDITH Pearlman is 78 years old. For 47 years, she has been writing quietly gorgeous short stories. (One, [...]

Lila: A Novel By Marilynne Robinson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 272 pages MARILYNNE Robinson's phenomenal fourth novel (published 34 years after her first, Housekeeping) begins with a cast-out child: 'Somebody [...]

Florence Gordon: A Novel By Brian Morton Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 320 pages FLORENCE Gordon, the cantankerous heroine of Brian Morton's latest novel, wants to be alone. When the novel opens, [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since my son Zander was born 11 years ago, I've talked to countless moms about the myriad ways kids have altered our lives. Most of the time, we […]

traveling with a baby can be a delightful lark, an impossible mission, or both in a single hour of the journey! But if you're intrepid (and prepared), a family trip [...]

The Woman Upstairs BY CLAIRE MESSUD Knopf, 272 pages CLAIRE Messud's new novel opens with a rant. Forty-two-year old Nora Eldridge, 'a good girl, a nice girl, a straight A, [...]

The View from Penthouse B BY ELINOR LIPMAN Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 272 pages E LINOR Lipman, a genuinely gifted writer of light fiction, has a lovely formula down pat, as [...]

Tenth of December , the sixth book and fourth collection of short stories by George Sannders, was published in early January. On the cover of the New York Times Magazine [...]

The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel BY GARY SAUL MORSON Stanford University Press, 296 pages 'W ORLD literature is a great symposium, and we are invited [...]

Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist BY SUNIL YAPA Lee Boudreaux Books, 320 pages Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, Sunil Yapa's [...]

My Name Is Lucy Barton By Elizabeth Strout Random House, 208 pages 'TO BEGIN with, it was a simple story,' says the eponymous heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton, [...]

City on Fire By Garth Risk Hallberg Knopf, 944 pages CITY on Fire, Garth Risk Hallberg's 900-plus-page debut novel, set in New York in 1977, was a literary sensation long [...]

This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! By Jonathan Evison Algonquin Books, 304 pages JONATHAN EVISON's fourth novel recounts the life of a thwarted Seattle housewife. The tale of Harriet Chance [...]

Among the Ten Thousand Things: A Novel By Julia Pierpont Random House, 336 pages AMONG the Ten Thousand Things, Julia Pierpont's debut novel, opens with a letter that aims to [...]

Byline: Moore Bashaw, Fernanda Stretch Your Day We've got sneaky little ways to shave minutes off the mundane stuff so you have bonus time to do the things you love. [...]

Byline: Moore Bashaw, Fernanda Curb Your Urge to Overshare After reading these real Facebook posts and the twisted reasons we spill nitty-gritty details of our lives, you might want to [...]

Purity: A Novel. BY JONATHAN FRANZEN. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 576 pages CHARLES Dickens is having a moment. In the wake of his 200th birthday in 2012, a slew of [...]

Mislaid: A Novel By Nell Zink Ecco, 256 pages NELL Zink's first novel, Wallflower, was published last year when she was 50. It made very little noise. By contrast, the [...]

Death and Mr. Pickwick: A Novel BY STEPHEN JARVIS Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 816 pages THE Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens's first novel, published serially over 20 months in 1836 and [...]

A God in Ruins: A Novel BY KATE ATKINSON Little, Brown and Company, 480 pages YOU NEEDN'T have read Life After Life, Kate Atkinson's excellent ninth novel, to enjoy her [...]

God Help the Child: A Novel By Toni Morrison Knopf, 192 pages GOD Help the Child, Toni Morrison's 11th novel, begins compellingly enough. A woman named Sweetness, 'light-skinned, with good [...]

We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel By Matthew Thomas Simon & Schuster, 640 pages 'INSTEAD of going to the priest, the men who gathered at Doherty's Bar after work went [...]

The Inner Sea: A Novel of the Year 100 By Zane Kotker Levellers Press, 268 pages ZANE KOTKER's The Inner Sea: A Novel of the Year 100 wonderfully describes the [...]

Byline: Fernanda Moore "Don't fight in front of the kids" and other advice you can ignore The world is full of advice for married couples, newlyweds or not--some of it […]

Byline: Fernanda Moore The advances and trends that have shaped family life, for better and worse More involved dads Over the past 20 years, dads have become much more actively […]

Byline: Fernanda Moore Why he can't clean and watch the kids at the same time, or remember the baby's nap--and what you can do about it One recent morning, after […]

Byline: Fernanda Moore One night recently, my son Zander was having a terrible time falling asleep. He had passed the point of no return, when extreme fatigue manifests as insomnia, […]

Byline: Fernanda Moore I'm an imperfect mother. Saying that feels revolutionary, somehow, although I have no trouble admitting I'm an imperfect wife or even an imperfect human being. But an […]

Byline: Fernanda Moore When you become a mom, you enter a whole new country. While there are guidebooks to help you navigate diaper rash, sleep habits, and how to give […]

Byline: Fernanda Moore The other day, as I stood in front of the open freezer waiting for a dinner idea to strike, I noticed that the ice tray on top […]

Byline: Fernanda Moore Traveling with kids can be a wondrous experience or a miserable slog--and it's often both, on the same trip. It pays to be prepared, so we've gathered […]

Byline: Fernanda Moore Last December, as we walked home from the school-bus stop, my 6-year-old was uncharacteristically silent. As we reached our driveway, Zander finally spoke up. "Philip's brother told […]

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour By Joshua Ferris Little, Brown and Company, 352 pages PAUL O'Rourke is a miserable man. To an outside observer, his life looks fine: [...]

Kinder Than Solitude By Yiyun Li Random House, 336 pages YIYUN Li's second novel begins in a crematorium in Beijing. A wealthy middle-aged man named Boyang has come to collect [...]

Casebook BY MONA SIMPSON Knopf, 336 pages NOVELIST Mona Simpson has spent most of her career puzzling out the complicated relationships between distant, baffling adults and their alienated children. In [...]

The Book of Jonah: A Novel BY JOSHUA MAX FELDMAN Henry Holt and Company, 352 pages JACOB JACOBSTEIN, the protagonist of Joshua Max Feldman's continually surprising debut novel, is happy. [...]

The Good Lord Bird: A Novel BY JAMES McBRIDE Riverhead, 432 pages THE GOOD Lord Bird, James McBride's National Book Award-winning novel, doesn't pretend to be straightforward historical fiction. Beginning [...]

THE LITERARY wunderkind-turned-editor-turned-philanthropist Dave Eggers begins his new novel in heaven, or at least heaven as imagined by its 24-year-old protagonist, Mae Holland: 'A million people, a billion, wanted to [...]

Byline: Fernanda Moore The last thing you want is to spend the weekend scrubbing, dusting, and wiping. Carol Seelaus, owner of Somebody's Gotta Do It, a cleaning business based in […]

Byline: Fernanda Moore You're a responsible adult with children of your own. Your daredevil days are behind you, right? Not necessarily--thrills are still out there, if you know where to […]

Byline: Fernanda Moore One recent morning, 22-month-old Lucy Brancazio got dressed all by herself. Never mind that her outfit consisted of two T-shirts, pink underpants pulled over her diaper, and […]

Byline: Fernanda Moore 1987 California becomes the first state to require all bicycle passengers under age 5 to wear a helmet. By 2001, 16 other states and many counties and […]

The Goldfinch BY DONNA TARTT Little, Brown and Company, 784 pages THE SECRET History, Donna Tartt's 1992 debut, was that exceedingly rare creature: a brilliant and addictive thriller that utterly [...]

Dissident Gardens BY JONATHAN LETHEM Doubleday, 384 pages DISSIDENT Gardens is exhilarating, overwhelming, and a mess. Jonathan Lethem's ninth novel is a sprawling meander through three generations of New York [...]