Novel Encounters

The younger generation is putting its own spin on this venerable institution

8 notable new novels by blossoming talent and returning favourites

This month’s novels run the gamut – from ’90s nostalgia to a #Tradwife satire – plus a creative portrayal of the life of Katharine Hepburn 

This month’s fiction picks have it all: romance, thrills, fantasy, history and the many foibles of contemporary life

This may be the shortest month, but it’s packed with literary debuts, gripping thrillers, historical hijinks and provocative probes of contemporary life

Make a fresh start and turn a new page with the first crop of 2026’s notable reads

Nostalgic, naughty and nice — our picks for December’s notable fiction should be on your list.

Besides this month’s scintillating literary debuts, the November lineup of new books can best be described as prodigal, with big, buzzy returns to fiction for eminent writers like Salman Rushdie, Olivia Laing and George Packer – as well as John Irving, who, after 40 years, revisits the Maine orphanage setting of his The Cider House […]

There’s something for everyone as the most exciting literary books of the season trickle in – there’s even one of those novels where the whole story is told in one sentence! Here are our October picks for the best fiction releases.

Summer is here and Zed contributors are fully immersed. In this roundup, we set out with Dan Rubinstein on his paddleboard adventure and dive into Robert Macfarlane’s treatise on the rights of rivers. Edward St. Aubyn – of Patrick Melrose fame – is back with a witty new novel and one reviewer says S.A. Cosby’s […]