Rebecca Makkai always knew she was going to write a boarding school novel. The writer has lived on the campus of the boarding school where her husband teaches for the last 20 years and has always been ...

If your present self could reckon with the past, what would you try to resolve? That’s the question that haunts Bodie Kane, the protagonist of I Have Some Questions for You, Rebecca Makkai’s ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Rebecca Makkai, author of "The Great Believers," returns with "I Have Some Questions for You" (Viking), a New York Times ...

Recently the bestselling author Rebecca Makkai revealed the setting of her next novel to fans: It would take place in 1938 and address the rise of Nazi and fascist sympathizers at the time in the ...

Rebecca Makkai never knows where her books are going to take her. Her 2014 novel, The Hundred-Year House, started as a short story about male anorexia and eventually transformed into an almost ...

A long list of praiseful adjectives — sharp, twisty, enthralling, cerebral, surprising — would serve as a review of Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions For You. However, that approach would fail to ...

When I walk down Halsted Street with Rebecca Makkai, Boystown feels like one giant block party. It’s a warm Saturday afternoon, so doors and windows are flung open, people are laughing, and the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Rebecca Makkai was only a child when the AIDS crisis hit her hometown, Chicago, in the 1980s. It formed the backdrop to her childhood, ...

A podcaster returns to her boarding school decades after a classmate was murdered to rehash the crime. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Rebecca Makkai about her novel, "I Have Some Questions For You." ...

Rebecca Makkai, the author of the 2018 novel and BookTok favorite "The Great Believers," is back with another book. "I Have Some Questions For You" came out on Feb. 21. The thriller follows Bodie Kane ...

Thalia Keith dies many times in Rebecca Makkai's latest novel. A high school senior takes a plunge into the school pool in the spring of 1995, bashes her head, and drowns. She's strangled and dumped ...