In Jennifer Egan’s brilliant 2022 novel The Candy House, tech billionaire Bix Bouton is the founder of social media company Mandala, a far more evocative and symbolic name than, say, Facebook, ...

A few years ago, I found myself in a stranger’s home when she was not there. I looked into her shower, checked the knobs on her stove, walked the path from the front door to the garage where the ...

It doesn’t feel quite correct to say that Jennifer Egan’s “The Candy House” (Scribner, 352 pp., ★★★ out of four, out Tuesday) is a sequel to her Pulitzer-winning 2010 novel, “A Visit From the Goon ...

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If it were possible to relive your memories and the memories of others, would you? It's a moral dilemma that the characters face in Jennifer Egan's latest book, "The Candy House." JENNIFER EGAN: In ...

In 1995, when Jennifer Egan was doing press for her first book, The Invisible Circus, her marketing strategy involved good old-fashioned snail mail. “I was handwriting postcards to friends of friends, ...

In her typically inventive fashion, Jennifer Egan calls The Candy House, the follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize winner A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011), a “sibling novel”. Is this new book smarter, ...

This is the breathless premise of Jennifer Egan’s internet novel “The Candy House,” which imagines a not-too-distant future in which our hyperconnected world of social-media sharing is extended to new ...

THE TITLE of Jennifer Egan’s new novel refers to the witch’s cottage which, enticing yet full of danger, lures in Hansel and Gretel. “Never trust a candy house!” a character observes early in the book ...