The question nagged at me the entire time I was reading Chang-rae Lee's fourth novel, "The Surrendered": What is this book about? After nearly 500 pages, the best I can offer are glimpses of plot. I ...

The science fiction writer Chloe Gong recommends new and classic books that push the boundaries of the genre, with plenty of techno thrills. By Chloe Gong “My Year Abroad” follows a young man from a ...

Chang-rae Lee starts his new novel, “On Such a Full Sea,” with the kind of stock beginning that seems disappointingly similar to those of the multivolume behemoths ceaselessly cranked out for the ...

When the Korean-American novelist Chang-rae Lee was a child, he was particularly interested in the works of Sigmund Freud. As he told the Times recently, he read Freud’s case studies eagerly, ...