FICTION
Allegra Goodman, The Cookbook Collector (The Dial Press). Allegra Goodman has rediscovered her sense of humor. Not that her new novel lacks seriousness... In her new novel, she works on a larger social canvas than ever before, armed with an awareness that to comprehend all the scheming and the sorrow, wit is indispensable. Slate.

Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story (Random House). A kibitz and a Korean shvitz with satirist turned sci-fi writer Gary Shteyngart. nymag. Da leggere anche la divertente intervista all'autore (nella foto): Your new novel, “Super Sad True Love Story,” a superliterate sendup of consumer culture, is set in New York in the near future, when books are extinct, eternal life can be purchased by a rich elite, the subway offers business class and see-through jeans are the latest fashion. How do you feel about the word “dystopia”? “Dystopia” is my middle name. I was born in the Soviet Union, and then we moved to Reagan’s America. We immigrated in 1979, just in time for the Gipper. nytmag.

NONFICTION
Joyce Carol Oates, In Rough Country. Essays and Reviews (Ecco/HarperCollins). In questa raccolta di saggi la prolifica autrice affronta anche temi difficili, come la morte del marito. nytbr.