What should writers do when catastrophic world events intrude on the composition of their work? The question lies at the heart of Maria Reva’s “Endling,” a novel of Ukraine before and during the 2022 ...

George Bernard Shaw once said that the privilege of joking in public should only be granted to people who know thoroughly what they are joking about. I thought of his words as I devoured Endling, the ...

The prestigious prize annually recognizes the best work of fiction in English from anywhere in the world. The shortlist will ...

Maria Reva’s Endling is a form-breaking tale of three kinds of survival: the survival of its titular endling, the final specimen of a soon-to-be extinct species of snails; the survival of her ...

Maria Reva's virtuosic novel starts out as a straightforward story about a Ukrainian biologist, but morphs into a comic take on war, the... 'Endling' is a shape-shifting debut that takes on heavy ...