Ms. Russell creates a new illness. She describes it’s hold over a futuristic America with “Twilight Zone”-like inventiveness and the energy and brio of a natural fantasist with a proclivity for blending the real and the surreal, the psychological and the sci-fi . . . She puts the reader under a spell for the duration of her story.

A master storyteller.

It is signature Russell: a fanciful, droll, elaborately thought-through allegory with a dark center . . . Her sentences both resonate with familiarity and startle with beauty.

The combination of Russell’s dazzling imagination and virtuosic prose adds up to pleasurable sensory overload. A-

“[Karen Russell] is arguably our greatest fantasist writing serious fiction today.

Russell writes with a Swiftian sense of sature . . . “Sleep Donation” is her most cutting lens yet.

A visionary e-book . . . An aural and visual immersion like no other, showing the dimensions that “books” can explore onscreen that they can’t in print.

A multimedia immersive experience . . . Remarkable.

This week I read—no, I should say experienced—a title that could offer a taste of publishing’s future. Hari Kunzru’s fascinating digital essay, Twice Upon A Time: Listening to New York . . . The finished product . . . is something that transcends the reading experience.

A kind of three-dimensional tone poem of city life . . . it recreates New York as a random pastiche of music, conversation, traffic noise, all adding up to its own ecstatic symphony.

. . . An evocative multimedia essay, Twice Upon A Time . . . allows readers to scroll through slides of text and imagery, each one synced to a soundtrack.

The total package . . . I would give this e-book to anyone who just arrived in the city and tell them to listen, to read, and to thereby recognize what a crazy, wonderful place they now call home.

A truly astonishing, mesmerizing, and in its own way beautiful piece of musical and literary work. Twice Upon a Time will move any New Yorker, or anyone who knows the city streets, heart and soul with its eerie, gritty grace and power.

Beautifully composed, and often terribly moving.

A page-turner that is also a literary delight.

Her best novel yet . . . exciting and, in the end, profoundly moving.

A magnificent novel: beautiful, terrible, true. Full of passion, life and intelligence . . . It reads already like a classic.

Kamila Shamsie’s powerful and gripping novel explores questions of love, loyalty and national identity.

Shamsie excavates the deepest, darkest corners of the human heart . . . Gripping.

A God In Every Stone will surely confirm Shamsie’s increasing eminence in the British world of letters.

A valuable reminder that the legacy of the Great War stretched far beyond Versailles.

The New World is a marvel. For the full experience, I’d recommend reading this one on the Atavist app. It’s a truly new way to move through a book—when I got to the end, I was so shaken that I had to pace the room. Chris Adrian and Eli Horowitz are not only reinventing the act of reading but also breaking our hearts with this extraordinary, digital love story.

It's a wild and fun book, yes, and also a precipitously imaginative and intelligent one. But maybe most importantly, its humor is profound and seems to come from the heart of an angel.

Adrian and Horowitz stylishly blend genres . . . Graphics, color transitions, fades, and even the way in which the text sweeps compliment and contribute to this engaging digital narrative.

I literally couldn’t be a bigger fan of Chris Adrian’s uniquely compassionate and wildly inventive voice. In The New World, Adrian pairs with Eli Horowitz to create a cryogenically intimate meditation on life and loss, and what it might mean to live forever.

Dear Thief is a hypnotic, beautiful and sometimes dark incantation—a letter to an old friend that lures the reader in and doesn’t let go. Samantha Harvey’s novel is a deftly drawn reminder of our deeply human desire for connection and the risk involved in the revelation of that desire.

Harvey has struck gold . . . a heady, elegiac combination of eroticism and loss, loathing and rapture.

Harvey’s writing is stunning; an effortless spool that gradually winds back the layers, dropping in revelations . . . Brilliant.

Harvey’s prose is quite simply ravishing . . . an incandescent vision of hope and acceptance.

A novel of profound beauty.

With her eerie and arresting latest, Harvey (The Wilderness) gives the neologism ‘frenemy’ a full-book treatment . . . Thrilling.