- July 18, 2011
- Apocalypse Now and Forever
A new collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s early work shows him to be the world’s sweetest man of war.
- July 11, 2011
- Trickster Makes the World
A musician conjures a mesmerizing alternate history of his own lame life in the novel Stone Arabia.
- May 9, 2011
- The End-of-Life Memoir
Why thinking about death isn’t morbid at all.
- April 11, 2011
- Death and Taxes
Why David Foster Wallace still demands our attention.
- March 28, 2011
- Group Think
Tina Rosenberg joins a popular club for nonfiction writers.
- February 21, 2011
- Indecent Exposure
A survivor tests the boundaries of just how far a memoir of child abuse should go.
- February 7, 2011
- Swamp Thing
A treacherous Everglades folktale from the promising Karen Russell.
- December 6, 2010
- American Hustlers
The surprisingly parallel lives of George Washington and Jay-Z.
- November 22, 2010
- Nowhere to Run
An insane tale of WWII survival. Starring an Olympian and an ungodly number of sharks.
- August 23, 2010
- The Precisionist
Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom illustrates, crankily, the joys of the old-timey literary novel.