novel

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The novel has sold 314,000 print copies so far this year, nearly eight times its sales figure from the same period in 2025, according to book tracker Circana BookScan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Actor Ryan Gosling and a cute alien named Rocky are doing wonders for a five-year-old science-fiction novel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

A TV adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s seminal 2001 novel, “The Corrections,” has finally found a home at Netflix.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

“The Corrections” limited series comes 25 years after Franzen published his National Book Award-winning novel, which he famously blindfolded himself to finish.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

This was the missing link in Darwin's logic: reproductive incompatibility, ultimately derived from genetic incompatibility, drove the origin of novel species.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee