Published in 1965, The Tin Can Tree was Anne Tyler’s second novel. Though she was only 24, her unique insight into human beings shines brightly in this story of tattered relationships.

Three families, the Pikes, the Greens, and the Potters, share a house in North Carolina’s tobacco country. All are grieving over the accidental death of Janie Rose Pike, an exuberant, though bothersome, child. While her mother retreats into a catatonic state, the others try to help while dealing with their own...

It’s nice to see a new novel from Douglas S. Reed. I read Child of Gilead several years ago and enjoyed it immensely. His latest is Elysian’s Son, a thoughtful and engrossing tale about a dictatorial society.

A young boy named David is a citizen of the Divine Five alliance. Children his age receive indoctrination from AI machines. Though orphaned and almost blind, David has qualities that bring him to the attention of authorities. He is assigned to Lady Myla, a highly-placed official’s wife...

Until I read Twist, I didn’t know that the Cloud is deep in the ocean, not high in the sky. If it accomplishes nothing else, Colum McCann’s novel makes us realize how fragile the internet is and how easily it can collapse.

Anthony Fennell, a burned-out novelist and alcoholic, is assigned to write an article about a fiberoptic cable outage somewhere in the South African region. The repair mission commander, John Conway, is an enigmatic character obsessed with both his job and an actress...