For a while there, it looked like the novel was a goner. This was after the French theorist invasion, when the ideas of Lacan and Derrida caught fire with American academics, turning the study of ...

"The Marriage Plot" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Jeffrey Eugenides: Madeleine Hanna is a college senior at the beginning of Jeffrey Eugenides' lively novel, "The Marriage Plot," a starry-eyed ...

As an undergraduate at Brown University, Jeffrey Eugenides never imagined he would be living like this. The 51-year-old author is a Pulitzer Prize winner, Oprah Winfrey book club pick and author of ...

Middlesex is a hard act to follow, but Jeffrey Eugenides' latest is a sly, meta-fictional love triangle. Eugenides both satirizes and empathizes... Jeffrey Eugenides is the Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

The novelist Jeffrey Eugenides’ timing could be characterized as deliberate: His work appears at precise nine-year intervals. “The Virgin Suicides” was his impressive 1993 debut (later made into a ...

No novelist in the English language is more closely associated with the marriage plot than Jane Austen. That literary trope turned rom-com convention gives structure to all six of her ...

Each week in the Books Briefing, we thread together Atlantic stories on books that share similar ideas, and ask you for recommendations of what our list left out. The mystery of marriage “Crammed with ...