Near the beginning of “The Glass Hotel” Emily St. John Mandel introduces Paul, who is studying finance at the University of Toronto. He’d prefer to study musical composition, but “His mother was ...

“Money is its own country,” according to author Emily St. John Mandel, and in her latest novel — ”The Glass Hotel” — Mandel explores exactly what people are willing to do in order to become a citizen ...

How does one follow up a National Book Award nominee? With something completely different, of course. Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel is more grounded in reality and smallercent, a young woman whose ...

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“The Glass Hotel” is probably the dreamiest, most ethereal novel about a Ponzi scheme that you will ever read. In Emily St. John Mandel’s latest novel, a Bernie Madoff-like character, bilking ...

Emily St. John Mandel's last novel was set in a world devastated by a worldwide flu epidemic. Station Eleven has sold more than a million and a half copies — though Mandel recommends you not read it ...

With the coronavirus moving rapidly around the world, it feels both eerie and well-timed to be reviewing Emily St. John Mandel’s work. Of the author’s past four books, her last was “Station Eleven” ...

“The Glass Hotel,” Alfred A. Knopf, by Emily St. John Mandel How does one follow up a National Book Award nominee? With something completely different, of course. Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel is ...

Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling Station Eleven was a propulsive read that reeled us in with a series of thrilling set pieces on its way to a conclusion that struck me as anticlimactic. Her ...