Taking on the space between life and death and a look back at a 1984 shooting that shocked New York City ...

The award-winning writer's latest book is already being hailed as one of the best novels of 2026.

The novel takes place over the course of the final earthly hours for a former oil company CEO and the spirit who comes to ...

The Booker Prize-winning writer talks about how social media fuels partisanship, the lessons of death and his new novel Vigil.

The author discusses his new novel, Vigil; the source of his ideas; and fiction as a vehicle for truth.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with author George Saunders on his latest novel Vigil, and why he finds himself revisiting death in his work.

In Saunders' 'Vigil,' a supernatural guide who comforts dying souls struggles with an unapologetic oil tycoon refusing to acknowledge his role in climate destruction.

This doesn’t matter much to our narrator, Jill “Doll” Blaine, who has so far comforted 342 dying souls, each equally “a person who had not willed himself into this world and was now being taken out of ...

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments ...

NEW YORK – George Saunders' path from obscurity to acclaim began some 30 years ago, not long after he finished a novel his wife could hardly stand. “I used to think the job of serious fiction was to ...