Peter Fischer buries his personal demons in work, work and more work. An immigration lawyer in Manhattan, his job is one long emergency: He advocates for asylees seeking legal standing and safe harbor ...

For those of us who consider the appearance of a new novel by Adam Haslett the equivalent of getting a new gospel, the authorial voice in "Mothers and Sons" (Little, Brown) is both familiar and ...

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The early part of the year is often a bit of a sleepy time for new fiction. Publishers expect readers to be sated by the rush of book buying associated with the holidays. Blockbuster titles are ...

If Adam Haslett was, for some reason, addressing his own characters when he titled this debut collection, he might have had the wrong idea. In each of his nine richly varied short stories, Haslett ...

As Donald Trump plots to expel millions of people who he claims — with Hitlerian flourish — are “poisoning the blood of our country,” Adam Haslett’s new novel, “Mothers and Sons,” could not be more ...

Adam Haslett's compelling novel focuses on the strained relationship between an asylum lawyer and his mother. It's a beautiful appreciation of the... Secrets feed on time in the masterful novel ...

While Adam Haslett's new novel tracks the underground movements of big money and global management, he still has his novelist's eye on the intimacies, even the perversities, of eccentric individuals.