Jeffrey Eugenides

Books by Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Paperback, 529 pages
The Virgin Suicides

by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Paperback, 243 pages
My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead

Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro

by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Hardcover, 587 pages
The Marriage Plot

by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Paperback, 406 pages

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Teenage Disconnect And 'The Virgin Suicides'

by Tavi Gevinson

December 26, 2012 7:00 AM

The Virgin Suicides takes teenage angst to the extreme. Writer, blogger and professional teenager Tavi Gevinson explains why it's a book she can't put down, year after adolescent year.

Meant To Be: 'The Marriage Plot,' The First Couple And 'Just My Type'

September 05, 2012 7:00 AM

Jeffrey Eugenides traces a love triangle, while Sebastian Barry examines a woman's well-lived life. In nonfiction, Jodi Kantor explores the Obamas' marriage, David Margolick revisits Arkansas school integration, and Simon Garfield romps through the history of type.

Books News & Features

National Book Critics Speak: Best Books Of The Year

by Parul Sehgal

March 07, 2012 2:56 PM

On Thursday evening, the National Book Critics Circle will announce the winners in the following categories: fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, biography, criticism and poetry. Browse the five fiction finalists.

Best Books Of 2011

Year-End Fiction Wrap-Up: The 10 Best Novels Of 2011

by Maureen Corrigan

December 14, 2011 8:24 AM

2011 was a terrific year for fiction — both from first-time novelists and much-decorated veterans. Maureen Corrigan's recommendations range from Karen Russell's dazzling debut, to David Foster Wallace's posthumously published novel, to what may be the Sept. 11 novel.

Illustration: Birds wrap a book in red paper.

Author Interviews

A 'Marriage Plot' Full Of Intellectual Angst

October 11, 201111:45 AM

Jeffrey Eugenides' third novel, The Marriage Plot, charts the lives of three young adults as they finish college, fall in love and navigate the real world after graduating from Brown University in 1982. Eugenides, also a Brown alum, based some of the novel on his own experiences directly after college.

Book Reviews

'Marriage Plot': More Than An Ivy League Love Story

by Heller McAlpin

October 11, 201110:01 AM

Middlesex is a hard act to follow, but Jeffrey Eugenides' latest is a sly, meta-fictional love triangle. Eugenides both satirizes and empathizes with his young intellectual characters' mix of pretentiousness, urgency and earnestness.

Author Interviews

Eugenides Spins A Modern Kind Of 'Marriage Plot'

October 05, 201112:14 PM

Madeleine, Mitchell and Leonard are about to graduate from Brown University when they get caught in a love triangle worthy of Jane Austen. In his latest book, Middlesex author Jeffrey Eugenides brings the classic Victorian marriage plot to a modern American college campus.

Jeffrey Eugenides is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex. His 1993 novel, The Virgin Suicides, was adapted for film by director Sofia Coppola.

Summer Books 2008: Excerpts

Excerpt: 'My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead'

by Jeffrey Eugenides

February 13, 2008 6:38 PM

Like a great mix tape, this collection of stories is inspired and personal, a conceptually coherent gathering of seemingly disparate pieces that relies on Jeffrey Eugenides' artful curatorship to make it resonate as a whole.

Author Interviews

'My Mistress's Sparrow' Gives Love a Bad Name

by Michele Norris

February 13, 2008 4:00 PM

Writer Jeffrey Eugenides, who edited the new anthology, My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead, takes an unorthodox look at love. He explains how the stories in this collection revolve around voyeuristic longing or disenchanted entanglement.

'Middlesex' Author Jeffrey Eugenides

August 03, 200711:00 AM

Jeffrey Eugenides' Pulitizer Prize-winning novel Middlesex has been on the bestseller list since its publication; it's now available in paperback. Eugenides is also the author of The Virgin Suicides, which was adapted into a feature film.

Mental Health

Inside The Mind Of A Sociopath

Confessions of a Sociopath is written under the pen name of M.E. Thomas.

Around the Nation

'The Watchers' Have Had Their Eyes On Us For Years

The National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters at Fort Meade, Md.

Books

Book News: Kim Jong Un Reportedly Gave 'Mein Kampf' As Gifts

Kim Jong Un (center) watched a performance celebrating the anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Book Reviews

A Family's Secrets And Sorrows Surface In 'Heatwave'

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Jeffrey Eugenides

Books by Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex

The Virgin Suicides

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead

Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro

The Marriage Plot

Jeffrey Eugenides has written books about:

NPR stories about Jeffrey Eugenides

PG-13: Risky Reads

Teenage Disconnect And 'The Virgin Suicides'

New In Paperback

Meant To Be: 'The Marriage Plot,' The First Couple And 'Just My Type'

Books News & Features

National Book Critics Speak: Best Books Of The Year

Best Books Of 2011

Year-End Fiction Wrap-Up: The 10 Best Novels Of 2011

Author Interviews

A 'Marriage Plot' Full Of Intellectual Angst

Book Reviews

'Marriage Plot': More Than An Ivy League Love Story

Author Interviews

Eugenides Spins A Modern Kind Of 'Marriage Plot'

Summer Books 2008: Excerpts

Excerpt: 'My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead'

Author Interviews

'My Mistress's Sparrow' Gives Love a Bad Name

'Middlesex' Author Jeffrey Eugenides

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Jeffrey Eugenides

Books by Jeffrey Eugenides

Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro

Jeffrey Eugenides has written books about:

NPR stories about Jeffrey Eugenides

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Inside The Mind Of A Sociopath

Around the Nation

'The Watchers' Have Had Their Eyes On Us For Years

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Book News: Kim Jong Un Reportedly Gave 'Mein Kampf' As Gifts

Book Reviews

A Family's Secrets And Sorrows Surface In 'Heatwave'

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