Ijeoma is a plant that was forced to grow a certain way. Growing up in […]
A Possible Life, by Sebastian Faulks
Novels like The Years of Rice and Salt and The Incarnations use an idea that I […]
Those We Left Behind, by Stuart Neville
Several chapters will roll by in Stuart Neville’s chilling novel, Those We Left Behind, before you […]
The Sellout, by Paul Beatty
Paul Beatty’s searingly caustic and smart satire, The Sellout, begins with the unnamed narrator about to […]
Secondhand Souls, by Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore’s A Dirty Job introduced us to Charlie Asher, a reluctant Death Merchant, widower, and […]
Woman of the Dead, by Bernhard Aichner
I’ve been trying to scrub Woman of the Dead, by Bernhard Aichner, out of my head […]
Katrina, by Gary Rivlin
Reading Sheri Fink’s Five Days at Memorial last month has given me a strange fascination for Hurricane Katrina […]
All That Followed, by Gabriel Urza
Sometimes I wish I lived in Europe or Asia or Africa, some place that’s soaked […]
Do Not Sell at Any Price, by Amanda Petrusich
Last spring, I read John Jeremiah Sullivan’s long article for The New York Times Magazine, “The […]
All This Life, by Joshua Mohr
I can remember when my dad first got us online. We had AOL and it […]