Jeff VanderMeer’s surprise fourth installment in the Southern Reach series, Absolution, is now available. The award-winning speculative sci-fi and fantasy author originally released Southern Reach as ...

Living in Western diplomatic privilege with cooks and maids and drivers, the women in the new novel “Absolution” spend their days attending luncheons, lectures and cocktail parties as the Vietnam War ...

Alice McDermott is talking about wigs. The National Book Award-winning novelist has never worn one over her short gray hair, but according to one early reader of her new book, “Absolution,” many of ...

Known for his blockbuster Southern Reach series, the author talks about his eerie new installment, “Absolution,” keeping mysteries alive and what people get wrong about alligators. By Alexandra Alter ...

Cover art for “Absolution” owned by MCD Books. Science fiction and fantasy have their fair share of prequel narratives. The Hunger Games has “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” James Dashner’s Maze ...

In the 18th century, mathematical concepts of rationalism were used by scientists and thinkers to impose order on chaos. In the disparate fields of biology and literature, intellectuals reached back ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our ...