Eley Williams tells the story of two word-mad characters who work for the same dictionary publisher 120 years apart. This novel is perfect for anyone who loves puns, crosswords and witty writing. This ...

The formal daring of Eley William’s storytelling does not result in austere abstraction, but a giddyingly immediate sense of others’ experience ...

In Williams’s The Liar’s Dictionary (Doubleday, Jan.), a contemporary lexicographer gets caught up in the legacy of a Victorian coiner of fake words. What was the inspiration for your novel? The idea ...

The Liar’s Dictionary, by Eley Williams (Doubleday). A playful paean to lexicology, this novel tells the story of two Londoners, Peter and Mallory, employed more than a hundred years apart by the ...

The books we love coming out this week include new titles from C.M. Waggoner, Eley Williams, and Kwei Quartey. Andrew Wedderburn. Coach House, $17.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-55245-405-3 Audrey ...