FICTION: A group of eco-guerrillas encounter a mysterious billionaire in this pre-pandemic literary thriller. "Birnam Wood" by Eleanor Catton; Farrar, Straus & Giroux (432 pages, $28) ——— I ll start my
In 2013, at 28, Eleanor Catton became the youngest ever Booker winner with The Luminaries. She talks about adapting the novel for screen, being shut out of her native New Zealand and why it has taken 10 years to write a follow-up