Szalay

The story of Paul Rainey's downfall was followed in 2009 by "The Innocent," a short, brisk, unexpected thriller about Stalin-era Russia, but with his latest novel Mr. Szalay has returned to home soil and more recent history.

The Pursuit of Okayness Paul Genders 2011

Yet theirs is an intriguing pairing—James desirous of love but too exhausted to fight for it, Katherine without desire one moment and aflame the next—and Mr. Szalay does well to keep us guessing about how it will develop.

The Pursuit of Okayness Paul Genders 2011

In another portrait of capitalism in the raw, David Szalay gives us the miseries of the last days of the boom.

The Pursuit of Okayness Paul Genders 2011

Not the Canadian-born, British-based novelist David Szalay, whose 2008 debut novel "London and the South-East" invited readers into the belly of the boom years of the early 21st century.

The Pursuit of Okayness Paul Genders 2011

Swimming in wealth it may have been, but in Mr. Szalay's telling this was a country unlovely to the eye and ice-cold to the touch.

The Pursuit of Okayness Paul Genders 2011

This world has much in common with the telesales world of "London and the South-East"—rapacious, double-crossing, not at all pretty, it adds up to another portrait from Mr. Szalay of capitalism in the raw.

The Pursuit of Okayness Paul Genders 2011

Write to Eva Szalay at eva.szalay@dowjones.com and Stephen L. Bernard at stephen.bernard@dowjones.com

Japan Trade Deficit Hits Yen Eva Szalay 2012

"No more magnificence," writes Mr. Szalay as the former estate agent, dot-com CEO and magazine proprietor looks into the shaving mirror.

The Pursuit of Okayness Paul Genders 2011

Mr. Szalay's first novel was energized by disgust with that era; "Spring" does not have quite such energy and, though efficiently constructed, is the less thrilling book, and is relieved to see that era go.

The Pursuit of Okayness Paul Genders 2011

Back in the mid-1990s, before Alex Szalay and Jim Gray met, Alex had been talking to astronomers at an all-sky infrared survey called 2MASS about Sloan and 2MASS using the same structures for their archives so that the sky could be accessible in both wavelengths.

A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010