“The Glass Hotel” by Emily St. John Mandel; Alfred A. Knopf; 321 pages How does one follow up a National Book Award nominee? With something completely different, of course. Emily St. John Mandel's new ...

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 ...

In the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, many readers revisited Emily St. John Mandel‘s prophetic dystopian novel, Station Eleven, about a flu that wipes out most of the earth’s population.

Writing in The New York Times in June 2003, less than two years after the events of September 11 shattered the complacency with which many Americans conducted their lives, the British critic Michael ...

“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 ...

Not quite halfway through “The Glass Hotel,” a new novel by Emily St. John Mandel, a woman named Vincent takes stock of her existence. “She felt that by any rational measure she was living an ...

These are deeply weird times, and especially so for Emily St. John Mandel. The Canadian novelist is publishing her latest book just as the literary world has again become obsessed with her last one: ...

“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 ...

Emily St. John Mandel’s last novel, 2014’s rapturously received “Station Eleven,” had one hell of an elevator pitch: What does the world look like after it’s been ravaged by a pandemic and ...

The Glass Hotel. By Emily St John Mandel.Knopf; 320 pages; $26.95. Picador; £14.99. AFTER PRODUCING three respectable thrillers, the Canadian author Emily St John Mandel raised her profile with her ...

In search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this week’s hottest new book releases. 1 “The Glass Hotel,” by Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf, fiction, on ...

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 smaller in scope than “Station ...