Enemy of the Good
A terrific debut novel set in Rome with a zany ensemble of journalists providing stories.
New Finds
A collection of 31 issues
Never Mind
Novelist Marilynne Robinson takes on some vexing ontological questions in “Absence of Mind.”
Literary Boundaries?
Dalkey is having a summer sale. You should look at Open Letter and Archipelago Books, too.
Peace, Love, Happiness
Paul Guest’s least interesting thing.
Who Is Leslie Jamison?
Leslie Jamison has the makings of a terrific novelist—even though she went to Harvard, Iowa, and Yale.
One Is the Loneliest Number
Love and all that stuff—Paolo Giordono writes about two damaged misfits trying to make a life.
Change Agents
Twenty-nine 20th-century radical commentaries.
Distress in Westport
Beauty fades when it confronts irrelevance.
Writer on the Brink
Expatriate Thomas Kennedy’s new novel deserves your immediate attention. That’s it.
Hors d’Oeuvres With Wittgenstein
Philosophical ideas shoehorned into everyday life.