FUNNY BECAUSE IT’S TRUE: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire, by Christine Wenc When I told a very funny editor that a new book...
THE FISHERMAN’S GIFT, by Julia R. Kelly “The Fisherman’s Gift” begins with a child washed up on a Scottish beach after a storm in 1900. A...
Nadler then introduces us to Sonja’s mother, Fania, who immigrated to Montreal after the war and works as a masseuse. “If I press just slightly in...
Stuart Pivar, a 94-year-old chemical engineer who lives in New York, has been collecting art and antiques since he was a child. He estimates he has...
When President Trump was criticized by some of the artists who were recognized at the annual Kennedy Center Honors program during his first term, he responded...
HOT AIR, by Marcy Dermansky Marcy Dermansky’s new novel, “Hot Air,” begins with a hot-air balloon falling out of the sky and into a suburban swimming...
THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER, by Stephen Graham Jones Stephen Graham Jones’s new novel would give Gen. Philip Sheridan fits. The Civil War officer is often cited...
SAVING FIVE: A Memoir of Hope, by Amanda Nguyen There is a phrase that recurs at key points throughout Amanda Nguyen’s powerful memoir of activism and...
Standing in her studio on the South Side of Chicago earlier this winter, the abstract painter and architect Amanda Williams was surprised by a dark blue...
What is Panem? Panem is a fictionalized, future version of the United States. People in the country’s 12 districts, which loosely correspond to regions of the...
