Rose, the protagonist of Claire Vaye Watkins’s latest novel, has retreated from the world to live in Nothingness Flats, a cinder-block cabin in the Nevada desert. On indefinite leave from her job at an environmental organisation, Rose works on her Al-Anon recovery, goes hiking and joins protests against the Yellow Pine of the title: a…
Welcome to the Book Review Book Club! Every month we select a book to discuss with our readers. Last month we read “Transcription,” by Ben Lerner. (You can also find past book club discussions in the Book Review podcast feed.) “Yesteryear,” by Caro Claire Burke, is one of the buzziest books of 2026, and with…
The debut novel by Claire Lynch, which won the Nero Gold prize for fiction last month, unfolds across two timelines as it tells of family secrets and a bitter divorce. The first is set in 2022, when Heron, an older man, gets a terminal cancer diagnosis. He seems to be coping well until he climbs…
