"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." “I don’t really know what ‘authentic’ means,” Katie Kitamura admits. She’s sitting in a nondescript hotel ...

Midway through Audition, the fifth and latest novel from Katie Kitamura, the unnamed narrator, an actor, muses on a particularly successful moment of performance. She’s the star of a buzzy new play, ...

A woman meets a man half her age at a sleek Manhattan restaurant for lunch. Is he her lover or her son? If the former, then you might expect her to wield the power, like the character of Mrs. Robinson ...

Included in the NYPL’s list is Audition by Katie Kitamura, which also appeared on Obama’s summer reading list. Kitamura’s followers enthusiastically supported Obama’s endorsement, writing comments ...

What began as a viral tweet became one of the most discussed and widely praised books of the year, the winner of the National ...

The new novel "Audition" opens with a scene in a Manhattan restaurant. The narrator is meeting a young man for lunch, and everybody has a different understanding of their relationship - the woman, the ...

Katie Kitamura, author of our November pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions on “A Separation,” plus Jeff announces December’s ...

We are all immersed in our own circumstances, and we get used to them, especially when they come with personal safety and a measure of power. That’s a common enough combination for the kind of ...