Michael Schaub

In his novel, 40, Alan Heathcock evokes an America gone off the rails.

Jess Walter’s collection The Angel of Rome moves back and forth in time.

In Tell Me How to Be, Neel Patel tracks the distance between a mother and a son.

Percival Everett’s The Trees is a masterful allegory about America and race.

In Rude Talk in Athens, Mark Haskell Smith looks to the ancient roots of comedy.

In her first novel, The Scapegoat, Sara Davis breaks the rules.

In A Children’s Bible, Lydia Millet imagines the end of the world.

In Vagablonde, her debut novel, the author tracks a fantasy life gone off the rails.