American Civil War Dreamscape
Madison Smartt Bell takes on Nathan Forrest.
Current Reads
A collection of 72 issues
Body Parts
British writer Will Self may seem to have odd preoccupations, but so what?
Room With a View
Simon Mawer’s Booker-shortlisted novel The Glass Room could easily be banal. It is not.
You Say Potato, I Say Tuber
What to do when a writer you admire disdains a book by an author you esteem?
So Far From God
“Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States.” A new novel exposes that truth.
Get Shorties
The annual “Best American Short Stories” is once again at hand.
Question, Questions, Questions?
Padgett Powell’s bebop solo of a book is 164 pages of interrogatory—that’s right, questions.
Raise Your Children Well
Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman address the current state of child rearing.
War, What Is It Good For?
In her new novel, Ana Menéndez considers the warrior versus the poet.
Inconceivable!
Not exactly a household name, Wallace Shawn has penned a dozen essays on a mélange of subjects.